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Le missionnaire « aux quarante clés »

L’ itinéraire urbain du père Lobry à Istanbul de 1886 à 1914

In: Social Sciences and Missions
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Gabriel Doyle CETOBaC-EHESS France Paris

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Résumé

Cet article propose de suivre l’ itinéraire d’ un missionnaire français installé à Istanbul à la fin de la période ottomane en se concentrant sur les stratégies urbaines employées au cours de sa mission, qui lui ont permis de s’ installer durablement dans la capitale ottomane. Le père Lobry apparaît en effet comme un entrepreneur urbain au service des lazaristes et d’ autres missions catholiques à Istanbul. Il impose une vision de l’ espace concentrée sur la moralité et les frontières entre les missionnaires et la ville, pratique des contournements du cadre juridique ottoman et promeut des sociabilités transnationales dans les établissements qu’ il administre. Il paraît ainsi judicieux de le traiter comme une figure locale d’ Istanbul, procédant comme d’ autres autorités de ce milieu, à la recherche d’ un contrôle de l’ espace urbain.

Abstract

This article proposes a study of a French missionary’s itinerary in late Ottoman Istanbul through the lens of his urban strategies during his mission in the city that made him stay for a long time in Istanbul. Père Lobry was in fact a major urban entrepreneur for his congregation and other Catholic organisations in the capital city. His work involved a vision of space based on morality and borders between the missionary world and the city. It nevertheless had to rely on diversions of the Ottoman legal framework. Lobry also managed to develop a transnational reputation through the promotion of sociability within the spaces he administered. He thus appears as a local figure of Istanbul, comparable to other authorities in the city that had similar strategies of control of urban space.

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