Honesty and loyalty under the ancien régime were imposed discipline, not spontaneous virtue

Evidence

2 Honesty and loyalty may have been the watchwords of the European ancient régime. But they were the canoniccal values of an intensively imposed system of social discipline, not the spontaneous overflow of grateful hearts (Clark 1986: especially 86). — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1073

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader argument that trust requires observable constraints — here the ‘observability’ was the imposed social discipline itself rather than organic sociality.