McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. — 344 p. Drawing on a vast array of official correspondence, merchant's letters, ship's logs, and graphic material from archives and research libraries in Canada, France, and the United States, Kenneth Banks details how France, as the most powerful nation on the Continent and possessing a tradition of maritime interest in the Americas and...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2020. — 320 p. This riveting book explores the little-known intimate life of Marie Antoinette and her milieu in a world filled with intrigue, infidelity, adultery, and sexually transmitted diseases. Will Bashor reveals the intrigue and debauchery of the Bourbon kings from Louis XIII to Louis XV, which were closely intertwined with the...
Springer, 2022. — 232 p. This book traces changing attitudes towards secrecy in eighteenth-century France, and explores the cultural origins of ideas surrounding government transparency. The idea of keeping secrets, both on the part of individuals and on the part of governments, came to be viewed with more suspicion as the century progressed. By the eve of the French...
Cambridge University Press, 1985. — 395 p. Why was Louis XIV successful in pacifying the same aristocrats who had been troublesome for Richelieu and Mazarin? What role did absolutism play in reinforcing or changing the traditional social system in seventeenth-century France? This analysis of the provincial reality of absolutism argues that the answers to these questions lie in...
IHS Press, 2005. — 276 p. A biography of Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642) of France—considered by many to be the founder of modern Europe—this book does not seek to make Richelieu a figure either of irrational worship or irrational hate. Belloc impartially examines Richelieu's life and career, delves into his Catholic and family roots, and pinpoints their relevance to the...
New Word City, 2018. — 373 p. Animated by well-chosen quotes from diarists of the period and the author's enthusiasm, this biography is as captivating as Secrets of Marie Antoinette and Bernier's other praised works. The life of the Sun King is described with immediacy from his birth in 1638, after an unexpected meeting between his alienated parents. Louis XIV inherited the...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 246 p. The Dream of Absolutism examines the political aesthetics of power under Louis XIV. What was absolutism, and how did it work? What was the function of the ostentatious display surrounding Louis XIV at Versailles? What is gained - and what is lost - by approaching such expressions of absolutism as propaganda, as present-day scholars...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 248 p. The Dream of Absolutism examines the political aesthetics of power under Louis XIV. What was absolutism, and how did it work? What was the function of the ostentatious display surrounding Louis XIV at Versailles? What is gained—and what is lost—by approaching such expressions of absolutism as propaganda, as present-day scholars tend...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. — 325 p. Captures the rise to power of a seminal figure who was instrumental in creating France as we know it. Chief minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century, and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. Among the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of...
Chief Minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. One of the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he has captured the imagination of generations, both through the story of his life and through Alexandre Dumas's...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1988. — 261 p. The Chief Minister: Policies and Critics. The Ministerial Team. Administrative Innovation and the Reaction of the Office-Holders. Aristocratic Grievances and Rebellion. Popular Rebellion.
Pygmalion, 2013. — 420 p. Il est l’incarnation du Grand Siècle et de l’apogée de la France. Jamais monarque ne fut, plus que lui, Roi à chaque instant de sa vie. À l’éclat et à la splendeur de son règne répondent un écrasant labeur personnel, une lutte continuelle pour paraître égal à lui-même et d’abord en bonne santé. Ses conquêtes, ses revers, sa grandeur devant l’adversité,...
Cambridge University Press, 1970. — 395 p. The monarchy of Louis XVI suffered revolution and then destruction after failing to settle its financial difficulties. What precisely were those difficulties? In this book, Professor Bosher shows that the monarchy was financed by a chaotic system of private enterprise which proved increasingly unmanageable and wasteful. Hundreds of...
Routledge, 2018. — 224 p. This bio-bibliography, first published in 1985, of the colonial "ministries" of Cardinal Richelieu, Nicholas Fouquet and Jean-Baptiste Colbert examines the primary and secondary sources available for a re-evaluation of the formative era of the French overseas empire. This volume will be of great interest to students of history and imperialism.
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. — 307 p. In the spring of 1775, a series of food riots shook the villages and countryside around Paris. For decades France had been free of famine, but the fall grain harvest had been meager, and the government of the newly crowned King Louis XVI had issued an untimely edict allowing the free commerce of grain within the kingdom....
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. — 480 p. The rise to power of Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719), a queen in all but name, was nothing short of extraordinary. Born into poverty and ignominy, she used her intellect, charisma, and connections to join the ranks of fashionable society, eventually establishing herself at the French court as governess to...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. — 480 p. The rise to power of Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719), a queen in all but name, was nothing short of extraordinary. Born into poverty and ignominy, she used her intellect, charisma, and connections to join the ranks of fashionable society, eventually establishing herself at the French court as governess to...
Borodino Books, 2017. — 373 p. Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac (9 September 1585 - 4 December 1642), commonly referred to as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman. He was consecrated as a bishop in 1607 and was appointed Foreign Secretary in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Catholic Church and the French...
Yale University Press, 1994. — 242 p. Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed him into a godlike figure. In this engrossing book, an internationally respected historian gives an account of contemporary representations of Louis XIV and shows how the making of the royal image illuminates the...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 312 p. Looking at royal ritual in pre-revolutionary France, Death and the crown examines the deathbed and funeral of Louis XV in 1774, the lit de justice of November 1774 and the coronation of Louis XVI, including the ceremony of the royal healing touch for scrofula. It reviews the state of the field in ritual studies and appraises the...
Routledge, 1993. — 186 p. Undoubtedly the best revisionist history on early modern France during 1661-1715, the reign of the famous King Louis XIV. A heck of a lot of detailed historical information squeezed into a small volume. This one might more appropriately be title "France under Louis XIV" as it's fairly light on biographical information, but very much not light on...
Introduction, Translation, and Notes by Paul Sonnino — Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020. — 268 p. The Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu ranks with the confessions of Saint Augustine and Jean-Jacques Rousseau as one of the most revealing expressions of an individual’s sense of identity in all literature. It is also one the least appreciated outside of France, in part...
Editions Tallandier, 2015. — 511 p. Ministre de Louis XIV, grand rival de Colbert, Louvois (1641-1691) est l'homme de confiance et le collaborateur le plus intime du Roi-Soleil. Son caractère brutal et autoritaire, son implication dans certains épisodes peu glorieux du Grand Siècle - l'affaire des Poisons, la révocation de l'édit de Nantes, le ravage du Palatinat -, nourrissent...
Boston: D.C.Heath and Company, 1963. — 120 p. Excerpts from prominent French and English historians examine both the beneficial and negative aspects of the reign of Louis X1V upon the future development of France. “ Louis XIV did more good for his country than twenty of his predecessors together and what he accomplished fell far short of what he might have done.” Voltaire....
Routledge, 2016. — 245 p. Louis XIV - the ’Sun King’ - casts a long shadow over the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Yet while he has been the subject of numerous works, much of the scholarship remains firmly rooted within national frameworks and traditions. Thus in France Louis is still chiefly remembered for the splendid baroque culture his reign ushered...
Editions du Seuil, 1997. — 579 p. Les différentes approches de ce recueil d'articles de L'Histoire écrits par les meilleurs spécialistes du XVIIe siècle ont pour but de mettre en lumière quelques caractères du Grand Siècle absolutiste, tout en contrastes et en images fortes, de l'assassinat d'Henri IV à la mort du Roi-Soleil. Au temps des malcontents pendant le règne de Louis...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 375 p. The publishing industry in France in the years before the Revolution was a lively and sometimes rough-and-tumble affair, as publishers and printers scrambled to deal with (and if possible evade) shifting censorship laws and tax regulations, in order to cater to a reading public's appetite for books of all kinds, from the famous...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2023. — 576 p. When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome of underlying conditions such as a faltering economy, social tensions, or the...
Gallimard Education, 2008. — 304 p. "Ne vous laissez pas gouverner ; soyez le maître, n'ayez jamais de favoris ni de premier ministre ; écoutez, consultez votre Conseil, mais décidez : Dieu qui vous a fait roi vous donnera les lumières qui vous sont nécessaires." Affamé de "grandeur et de magnificence", Louis XIV (1638-1715) voulut repousser les limites de la condition humaine....
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. — 344 p. The intertwined history of French state formation and empire building in New France. Challenging the traditional narrative of an orderly establishment of law, sovereignty, and authority in the colony, Disputing New France reveals how negotiations and contestations among a range of actors actively shaped empire building, offering...
Harvard University Press, 1935. — 195 p. This work is a description of the Fronde, the most important act of opposition in this period. I have attempted to show what an examination of the evidence has convinced me is the truth, that this movement rested upon a constitutional theory according to which the will of the King is not law. The question of whether or not this theory...
Edipro, 2007. — 244 p. Cet ouvrage se divise en six parties qui représentent de 1683 à 1705 : les origines, les causes, la révolte, le chevalier Rolland contre Broglie et Montrevel, Villars le « pacificateur » des Cévennes et la défection de Cavalier entraînant la mort de Rolland, la fin des Camisards. Nous découvrons, au fil de la lecture, le déroulement de ces moments...
Didactic Press, 2015. — 448 p. "He died with constancy and resignation, and the last days of his life show him to more advantage as a man than the season of his greatest glory and prosperity. It had been well for his people had the aged monarch been impressed at an earlier period of his reign with those words of counsel which he addressed on his deathbed to the youthful Dauphin....
University of Illinois Press, 2015. — 360 p. The standard story of St. Louis's founding tells of fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau hacking a city out of wilderness. St. Louis Rising overturns such gauzy myths with the contrarian thesis that French government officials and institutions shaped and structured early city society. Of the former, none did more than...
Booket, 2002. — 256 p. John H. Elliott nos ofrece aquí el análisis comparado de esas dos grandes figuras de la Europa moderna que fueron Olivares y Richelieu, y nos demuestra que fueron más semejantes -y más equilibrados en méritos- de lo que acostumbramos a suponer. Su análisis, sin embargo, va más allá de los hombres, a las formas de organización política, para atacar el...
Routledge, 2018. — 255 p. The Purpose of this history of Cardinal Richelieu is to show the living personality of the man - to show it evolving, reacting to and acted on by other personalities - and to portray the conditions in France as he found them and transformed them. Within such a narrow compass it is not possible to give full particulars of the sources on which this...
Cornell University Press, 1976. — 325 p. Physiocracy is an economic theory developed by a group of 18th-century Age of Enlightenment French economists who believed that the wealth of nations derived solely from the value of "land agriculture" or "land development" and that agricultural products should be highly priced. Their theories originated in France and were most popular...
Anchor Books, 2007. — 432 p. Louis XIV, the highly-feted “Sun King”, was renowned for his political and cultural influence and for raising France to a new level of prominence in seventeenth-century Europe. And yet, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was equally legendary in the domestic sphere. Indeed, a panoply of women—his mother, Anne; mistresses such as Louise de la...
Random House, 2001. — 512 p. Brilliantly written, a work of impeccable scholarship. An utterly riveting and intensely moving book by one of our finest biographers. Never before has the life of Marie Antoinette been told so intimately and with such authority as in Antonia Fraser's newest work, Marie Antoinette: The Journey. Famously known as the eighteenth-century French queen...
Armand Colin, 2015. — 240 p. Qu’est-ce que le premier empire colonial français et comment, sur près de trois siècles, a-t-il évolué ? Depuis la mise en place d’un projet colonial par Richelieu jusqu’aux années 1810, qui voient la prise de contrôle par l’Angleterre des derniers vestiges de possessions françaises fragilisés par l’épisode révolutionnaire, l’ouvrage montre les...
Public Affairs, 2012. — 288 p. The Mancini Sisters, Marie and Hortense, were born in Rome, brought to the court of Louis XIV of France, and strategically married off by their uncle, Cardinal Mazarin, to secure his political power base. Such was the life of many young women of the age: they had no independent status under the law and were entirely a part of their husband’s...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. — 272 p. Across the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of state-building initiatives, social reform programs, and imperial expansion efforts. Young Subjects explores the lives and experiences of these youth, revealing their role as active and vital agents...
Peter Lang, 2011. — 172 p. This volume is the first book-length study devoted to gossip in early modern France. Whereas many works that focus on other countries and periods have concentrated on the relationship between gossip and women, none has explored the crucial link between gossip and same-sex desire. Using material that has never been published before and touching on...
Arnold Publishers, 2000. — 241 p. Louis XVI was at the center of the French Revolution, one of the major turning points in world history, but he remains relatively little known, often portrayed only as the weak, lazy, and treasonous king dominated by Marie-Antoinette. This new investigation by John Hardman, a leading expert on the French Revolution, challenges this stereotype....
Yale University Press, 2019. — 376 p. A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen. Who was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 512 p. Louis XVI of France, who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution and Reign of Terror, is commonly portrayed in fiction and film either as a weak and stupid despot in thrall to his beautiful, shallow wife, Marie Antoinette, or as a cruel and treasonous tyrant. Historian John Hardman disputes both these versions in a fascinating new...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 288 p. Our ideas about the long histories of young couples' relationships and women's efforts to manage their reproductive health are often premised on the notion of a powerful sexual double standard. In Sex in an Old Regime City, Julie Hardwick offers a major reframing of the history of young people's intimacy. Based on legal records from the...
Ohio State University Press, 1976. — 311 p. This is no where more obvious than in the career of the Sun King (assuming kings can have a career). Louis XIV comes over as a number of models, the authoritarian king, the narcissistic glam-rock king, and a Catholic bogeyman king seeking to impose Catholicism on the free by suppressing minorities. We would not want to go totally...
Columbia University Press, 2021. — 336 p. Western Europe rose in global power during the early modern period as overseas expansion opened new trade routes. At the same time, intense rivalries pitted European states against one another in recurrent wars. Henning Hillmann examines the merchant community of Saint-Malo, Brittany, a key port in the French Atlantic economy, to shed...
Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York
Compulsory registration and its limits, 1665–1671
Victory over the parlements, 1671–1675
Venal office and the royal breakthrough
The ordeal of the parlementaires
The regent and the parlements: the bid for cooperation
Confronting the Parlement of Paris, 1718
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 362 p. Cultivated Power explores the collection, cultivation, and display of flowers in early modern France at the historical moment when flowering plants piqued the curiosity of European gardeners and botanists, merchants and ministers, and dukes and kings alike.
Routledge, 2006. — 168 p. This controversial study takes the provocative line that the French monarchy was a complete success. James turns the idea of royal 'absolutism' on its head by redefining the French monarchy's success from 1598 - 1661. The Origins of French Absolutism, 1598-1661 maintains that building blocks were not being laid by the so-called architects of...
Stanford University Press, 2010. — 358 p. From Deficit to Deluge takes stock of shifts in scholarly investigation of the origins of French Revolution. During the last decade, scholars have moved beyond "revisionist" historians of the 1970s, who highlighted the monarchy's degeneration into despotism, to explore related conflicts in the realms of finance, social relations,...
Princeton University Press, 1978. — 384 p. Most historical scholarship concerned with the Fronde has investigated the Parlement of Paris. By focusing on the different experience of high court judges in Aix-en-Provence, Sharon Kettering illuminates the causes of resistance to royal authority and offers a new understanding of the role of provincial officials in...
Manchester University Press, 2014. — 280 p. This book seeks to rehabilitate the reputation of Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, the controversial favourite of Louis XIII often maligned by historians. Kettering argues that the traditional historical interpretation of Luynes is significantly influenced by the testimony of Richelieu, who subjected Luynes to a devastating character...
Routledge, 2000. — 270 p. This concise and up-to-date assessment of Richelieu's career provides an enthralling introduction to the character and exercise of his power. Richelieu governed France for 18 years until his death and until the mid-20th century was viewed by Anglo-Saxon historians as cold, clever and ruthless. Recent interpretations have been more favourable and in...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2016. — 315 p. The Splendid Century , penned by the brother of famous author C. S. Lewis (“Alice in Wonderland”), is a depiction of various aspects of life in France during the reign of Louis XIV, gleaned through the author’s thorough research of records, correspondence, and journals of the time. Using anecdotal evidence, the book probes in detail...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2016. — 315 p. The Splendid Century , penned by the brother of famous author C. S. Lewis (“Alice in Wonderland”), is a depiction of various aspects of life in France during the reign of Louis XIV, gleaned through the author’s thorough research of records, correspondence, and journals of the time. Using anecdotal evidence, the book probes in detail...
Cambridge University Press, 1968. — 365 p. As an introduction to her detailed study Professor Lublinskaya presents a summary and critique of the whole 'general crisis' interpretation of seventeenth-century European history which is regularly a subject for heated debate among Western historians. However, it is as a specialist in the history of seventeenth-century France that...
Penguin Books, 2019. — 512 p. — ISBN: 978-1-846145-99-6. Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, dominated his age. In the second half of the seventeenth century, he extended France's frontiers into the Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies in America, Africa and India. Louisiana, which once occupied a third of the territory of the present-day United States, is named...
Getty Research Institute, 2022. — 258 p. This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV. Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France’s King...
University of Illinois Press, 2023. — 334 p. Mediation, monarchy, and Louis XIV's attempts to legitimize his reign In order to assert his divine right, Louis XIV missed no opportunity to identify himself as God’s representative on earth. However, in Sunspots and the Sun King Ellen McClure explores the contradictions inherent in attempting to reconcile the logical and mystical...
Penn State Press, 2011. — 280 p. In Licensing Loyalty, historian Jane McLeod explores the evolution of the idea that the royal government of eighteenth-century France had much to fear from the rise of print culture. She argues that early modern French printers helped foster this view as they struggled to negotiate a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the French...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 232 p. According to Alexis de Tocqueville’s influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened assemblies of...
New York Review Books Classics, 2012. — 272 p. The Sun King is a dazzling double portrait of Louis XIV and Versailles, the opulent court from which he ruled. With characteristic élan, Nancy Mitford reconstructs the daily life of king and courtiers during France’s golden age, offering vivid sketches of the architects, artists, and gardeners responsible for the creation of the...
Princeton University Press, 1972. — 424 p. Discarding the traditional view of the Fronde as an abortive revolution against "absolute monarchy" during the minority of Louis XIV, A. Lloyd Moote analyzes it by studying the ambivalent role of its leading institutional element, the Parlement of Paris. France's highest tribunal, dedicated to law and the principles of royal...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 328 p. The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering - in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its...
Princeton University Press, 2009. — 328 p. The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering - in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its...
Manchester University Press, 2017. — 272 p. In pursuit of politics offers a new interpretation of the debates over education and politics in the early years of the French Revolution. Following these debates from the 1760s to the Terror (1793-1794) and putting well-known works in dialogue with previously neglected sources, it situates education at the centre of revolutionary...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 338 p. David Parrott's book offers a major re-evaluation of the last year of the 'Fronde' - the political upheaval between 1648 and 1652 - in the making of seventeenth-century France. In late December 1651, Cardinal Mazarin defied the order for his perpetual banishment, and re-entered France at the head of an army. The political and military...
Oxford University Press, 1996. — 224 p. There Are No Slaves in France examines the paradoxical emergence of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution. Sue Peabody shows how the political culture of late Bourbon France created ample opportunities for contestation over the meaning of freedom. Based on various archival sources,...
Didactic Press, 2015. — 401 p. The reign of Louis XIV. extended over seventy years, and in so long a period it largely modified the institutions and the power of France. Her European position was far more commanding at the close of the seventeenth century than at its beginning. Alike in political power, in the influence exercised by her society, in the attention attracted by her...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 241 p. From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country's superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped-up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself from all of the major charges over the course of three long years, in the...
Routledge, 2019. — 228 p. This title was first published in 2003. Corps and Clienteles offers a unique approach to this debate by focusing on the intersection between institutions and personal relationships in the financial strategies surrounding Louis XIV's final two wars. It argues that, in appealing to the elite for financial support to wage war, Louis in return stabilised...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 512 p. This account of French settlers, who came to the Americas from 1670 through 1730, examines how they and thousands of African slaves (together with Amerindians) constructed settlements and produced and traded commodities for export. Bringing together much new evidence, James Pritchard explores how the newly constructed societies and new...
McMillan Press, 1973. — 502 p. Introduction: A Perspective on General European History, 1650-1715 . Beginnings in War, Revolt, and Misery . Reports of a Provincial Revolt. The Parlement of Paris and the Fronde. Mazarin on the Parlement during the Fronde. Public Opinion, the Press, and the Mazarinades. The Fronde of the Princes. The French Countryside during Civil War. Descartes...
Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2004. — 1108 p. The French East India Company was a colonial commercial enterprise, founded on 1 September 1664 to compete with the English (later British) and Dutch trading companies in the East Indies. Planned by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, it was chartered by King Louis XIV for the purpose of trading in the Eastern Hemisphere. It resulted from the...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. — 255 p. Entrepreneurship and the promise of a better city in Lyon an age of powerful ideas, eager moves, and mixed results. Chronological Landmarks. Key Institutions in Eighteenth-Century Lyon. Units of Measurement. Monetary Units and Prices. Illustrations. Introduction Entrepreneurship in a Premodern Context. The Making of a Vocation....
Praeger, 2001. — 221 p. Midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue. The author demonstrates how this attack on...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 278 p. At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This book explains how international bankers moved French money across Europe, and how the foreign exchange system was so overloaded by the demands of war that a massive banking crash resulted.
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 286 p. The financial humbling of a great power in any age demands explanation. In the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14) Louis XIV's France had to fight way beyond its borders and the costs of war rose to unprecedented heights. With royal income falling as economic activity slowed down, the widening gap between revenue and expenditure led...
Routledge, 2015. — 241 p. This title, first published in 1984, is a case study of crime and criminal justice in rural, southwestern France in the last century of the Old Regime. Based on extensive research in criminal court records, often the only documentary evidence of the poor and illiterate, the study is a valuable addition both to our knowledge of Old Regime society and to...
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014. — 288 p. Historians and social scientists have long identified bureaucracy as the modern state's foundation and the reign of France's Louis XIV as a model for its development. A World of Paper offers a fresh interpretation of bureaucracy through a close examination of the department of the Sun King's last foreign secretary, Jean-Baptiste...
Batoche Books Kitchener 2004. — 79 p.
The Economic Policy of Colbert is the result of work done in connection with the London School of Economics and Political Science. It was originally written for, and obtained, the Whately Prize at Trinity College, Dublin; so that its scope is necessarily limited. No attempt has been made to give a detailed or elaborate treatment of...
Wbg Theiss in Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2018. — 304 p. Als Jules Mazarin 1630 die politische Bühne betritt, tut er dies zwar als päpstlicher Gesandter, aber ohne nennenswerten Rang und Namen dafür mit beispielloser Durchschlagskraft: Er verhindert durch sein diplomatisches Geschick die militärische Eskalation zwischen Spanien und Frankreich im Erbfolgekrieg von...
Wbg Theiss in Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2018. — 304 p. Als Jules Mazarin 1630 die politische Bühne betritt, tut er dies zwar als päpstlicher Gesandter, aber ohne nennenswerten Rang und Namen dafür mit beispielloser Durchschlagskraft: Er verhindert durch sein diplomatisches Geschick die militärische Eskalation zwischen Spanien und Frankreich im Erbfolgekrieg von...
University of Chicago Press, 2021. — 416 p. There is little doubt that the French Revolution of 1789 changed the course of Western history. But why did the idea of civic equality—a distinctive signature of that revolution—find such fertile ground in France? How might changing economic and social realities have affected political opinions?William H. Sewell Jr. argues that the...
Routledge, 2019. — 239 p. The career of the French saint Vincent de Paul has attracted the attention of hundreds of authors since his death in 1660, but the fate of his legacy - entrusted to the body of priests called the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists) - remains vastly neglected. De Paul spent a lifetime working for the reform of the clergy and the evangelization of...
Harvard University Press, 2008. — 330 p. In a provocative study, Paul Sonnino examines the diplomatic negotiations that took place in Westphalia from 1643 to 1648, which brought an end to the agonizing civil and religious conflict of the Thirty Years’ War. Sonnino steps back from myriad historical readings of Westphalia to take the diplomats’ intentions and interactions...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 286 p. The Search for the Man in the Iron Mask triumphantly solves an enduring puzzle that has stumped historians for centuries and seduced novelists and filmmakers to this day. Who was the man who was rumored to have been kept in prison and treated royally during much of the reign of Louis XIV while being forced to wear an iron mask?...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 209 p. Who preceded whom? Who wore what? Which form of address should one use? One of the most striking aspects of the early modern period is the crucial significance that contemporaries ascribed to such questions. In this hierarchical world, status symbols did not simply mirror a pre-defined social and political order; rather, they operated as...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 310 p. Examining cultural production during the reign of Louis XIV, Crowning Glories brings together the role of the arts in the monarchy’s propaganda wars, the significance of Netherlandish realism in France, and the rise of empiricism in the early modern period.
Macmillan Education, 1998. — 222 p. Louis XIV and French Monarchy. Louis XIV and the Government of France. Louis XIV and His Subjects. Louis XIV and the Churches. Louis XIV and the Direction of Ideas in France. Louis XIV and Europe. Concluding Discussion.
Macmillan Education, 2004. — 212 p. — (European History in Perspective). Drawing upon recent research and past studies, David J. Sturdy presents a concise, up-to-date analysis of the private and public careers of two of the most influential ministers in seventeenth-century France. Richelieu and Mazarin: adopts a broadly chronological approach, interspersed with passages at...
Macmillan Education, 2004. — 212 p. — (European History in Perspective). Drawing upon recent research and past studies, David J. Sturdy presents a concise, up-to-date analysis of the private and public careers of two of the most influential ministers in seventeenth-century France. Richelieu and Mazarin: adopts a broadly chronological approach, interspersed with passages at...
Routledge, 1997. — 432 p. Mazarin was the model statesman of the early modern period in French history. This book follows his career from pupil of the Jesuits, through legate in Paris and Avignon, to service for Louis XIII and beyond. Mazarin's role in the survival of absolute monarchy during the upheavals of the Fronde and his guidance of the young Louis XIV are given full...
Routledge, 1998. — 112 p. Richelieu and Mazarin by Geoffrey Treasure compares these two striking, but very different, statesmen and evaluates their careers and achievements in the light of modern research. It explores all aspects of the two men's careers including the historical background, their personal characters, aims and values and their experience of power. Geoffrey...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 392 p. An "appreciative exposition" on the writings of Boisguilbert, with special emphasis on his descriptions of trade restraints and their effects on the economy in seventh-century France. The author also compares these descriptions with the origin of the theory of laissez faire and other modern economic thought.
Éditions Payot, 2015. — 352 p. Une histoire coquine du château de Versailles vue sous l'angle des amours qu'il abrita, tant royaux, de Louis XIV à Louis XVI (1661-1789), que domestiques, par l'auteur de Ninon de Lenclos et de Colbert. Michel Vergé-Franceschi, spécialiste de l'Ancien Régime, est professeur d'histoire moderne à l'université de Tours et lauréat de l’Académie...
Fayard, 2006. — 464 p. La société de l'Ancien Régime - et particulièrement celle du xviie siècle - nous est aujourd'hui à peu près aussi exotique que celle de l'Antiquité classique ou de l'Amérique précolombienne... Nous avons d'elle une vision figée par les trois siècles qui nous en séparent, et longtemps une lecture idéologique du passé de la France a stérilisé les recherches...
Éditions Payot, 2014. — 444 p. Courtisane de légende, comme sa chère amie Marion de Lorme, Ninon de Lenclos (1623-1705) traverse tout le siècle de Louis XIV et meurt octogénaire, encore adulée par les amants qui ont fait sa réputation, de Richelieu au Grand Condé, du duc de La Rochefoucauld aux marquis de Sévigné père et fils, en passant par une foule de maréchaux. Fille unique...
Fayard Edición, 2005. — 640 p. Né dans un hameau peuplé d'une centaine d'âmes, le Père de la patrie corse est mort dans la plus grande capitale européenne de son temps, Londres. Né en 1725, élevé à Naples, rentré pour moins de quinze ans de « pouvoir » (1755-1769), exilé en Angleterre jusqu'en 1790, revenu à Corte pour quatre ans, retourné à Londres de 1794 à sa mort en 1807,...
Pygmalion, 2008. — 382 p. Richelieu est passionnant, tout à la fois homme d'État et homme d'Église, gentilhomme et cardinal, théologien et inspirateur de très violents pamphlets. Sa carrière, à la fois politique et religieuse, fut exceptionnelle. Bien qu'il gouvernât la France, il n'en reste pas moins un être méconnu, dont les initiatives ont souvent été sources de méprise. Au...
Pen and Sword History, 2017. — 272 p. Marie Antoinette has always fascinated readers worldwide. Yet perhaps no one knew her better than one of her closest confidantes, Marie Thrse, the Princess de Lamballe. The Princess became superintendent of the Queens household in 1774, and through her relationship with Marie Antoinette, a unique perspective of the lavishness and daily...
Collier Books, 1962. — 155 p. It is the measure of Richelieu's greatness that it should be so difficult to imagine the growth of the French monarchy, or the development of Europe in the seventeenth century, without him. The Cardinal was a personality so dominating and so impressive that in his lifetime almost every event in Europe, however remote, would be ascribed to his...
Pegasus Books, 2018. — 464 p. An intelligent, authoritative, and often surprising biography of the most famous of French monarchs, by an acclaimed biographer and historian. This stylish and incisive narrative presents readers with a fresh perspective on one of the most fascinating kings in European history. Louis XIV's story has all the ingredients of a Dumas classic: legendary...
Pegasus Books, 2021. — 352 p. The Man in the Iron Mask has all the hallmarks of a thrilling adventure story: a glamorous and all-powerful king, ambitious ministers, a cruel and despotic jailor, dark and sinister dungeons— and a secret prisoner. It is easy for forget that this story, made famous by Alexandre Dumas, is that of a real person, Eustache Dauger, who spent more than...
Rowman & Littlefield, 2011. — 176 p. Beyond Belief: Surviving the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France presents a demographic study of the behaviors of Protestants and Catholics in a town in southeastern France between 1650 and 1715. The Protestants in Loriol did not endure the full array of horrors experienced by so many French Protestants and survived pressure to...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 288 p. This book is a groundbreaking evaluation of the interwoven trajectories of the people, such as itinerant ship-workers and colonial magistrates, who built France’s first empire between 1680 and 1780 in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. These imperial subjects sought political and legal influence via law courts, with strategies that reflected...
Borodino Books, 2018. — 304 p. Marie Adrienne de Lafayette was a very interesting person in her own right, as well as being the wife of the famous general. She had two passions-her intensely devout Catholic faith and her husband. She experienced great suffering, as well as great joy, as might be imagined, as she was an aristocrat in 18th century France. Her mother, grandmother...
СПб.: Типография В. С. Балашев и К, 1900. — XVI, 658 с. Ардашев (Павел Николаевич) — историк. Род. в 1865 г., образование получил в Московском универс., по историко-филологическому факультету. Результатом архивных изысканий А. во Франции было исследование: «Провинциальная администрация во Франции в последнюю пору старого порядка. Провинциальные интенданты», т. I (СПб.,...
Киев: Типография И.И. Чоколова, 1906. — XX, 734 c.
Ардашев Павел Николаевич — историк. Род. в 1865 г., образование получил в Московском универс., по историко-филологическому факультету. Результатом архивных изысканий А. во Франции было исследование: «Провинциальная администрация во Франции в последнюю пору старого порядка. Провинциальные интенданты», т. I (СПб., диссертация на...
Одесса: типография В. Кирхнера, 1884. - 279 с.
Афанасьев, Георгий Емельянович, историк. Родился в 1848 году. Окончил курс в Одесском университете. Степень магистра получил за диссертацию: "Главные моменты министерской деятельности Тюрго" (Одесса, 1884); степень доктора - за диссертацию: "Условия хлебной торговли во Франции в конце XVIII века" (СПб. , 1892). С 1888 года А. читал...
Москва: Университетская типография, 1852. — 187 с. Монография российского экономиста Ивана Кондратьевича Бабста (1823-1881). В монографии исследовалась финансовая политика правительства регента Франции Филиппа Орлеанского (1674-1723) в 1715-1723 годах, а также подробно разобрана т.н. «система Ло», названная по имени предложившего её шотландского финансиста Джона Ло, или Лоу...
М.: Аграф, 2002. — 272 с. — ISBN: 5-7784-0193-0. XVII век, блистательная эпоха расцвета французского абсолютизма, принесшая всемирную славу Франции и ее культуре, неотделим от образа монарха, как солнце, осветившего свою страну и так и прозванного современниками : Король-Солнце. Неоценимо много сделал Людовик XIV для того, чтобы французская культура - театр, живопись,...
Монография — Ленинград: Издательство Ленинградского университета, 1990. — 246 с. Монография посвящена практически не исследованной в отечественной и остро дискутируемой в зарубежной историографии теме о социальном облике представителей государственной власти, позволяющей глубже понять сущность и своеобразие французского абсолютизма. В историко-социологическом аспекте...
Л.: Издательство Ленинградского университета, 1959. — 294 с.
Монография освещает мало исследованный период в истории Франции и основана, кроме печатных источников и литературы, на большом количестве неопубликованных рукописей. В книге дана картина социально-экономических отношений и политической борьбы во Франции начала XVII в. Книга рассчитана на специалистов-историков,...
Л.: Издательство Ленинградского университета, 1959. — 294 с. Монография освещает мало исследованный период в истории Франции и основана, кроме печатных источников и литературы, на большом количестве неопубликованных рукописей. В книге дана картина социально-экономических отношений и политической борьбы во Франции начала XVII в. Книга рассчитана на специалистов-историков,...
М.: Наука, 1982. – 279 с.
В монографии, посвящённой периоду Тридцатилетней войны и канцлерства Ришелье, завершается исследование истории Франции первой половины XVII в., начатое в работах автора 60-х годов. В ней детально рассматриваются эволюция государственных финансов, рост налогов и вызванные ими народные движения. Даётся историографический обзор литературы о Ришелье и...
М.: Наука, 1982. – 279 с.
В монографии, посвящённой периоду Тридцатилетней войны и канцлерства Ришелье, завершается исследование истории Франции первой половины XVII в., начатое в работах автора 60-х годов. В ней детально рассматриваются эволюция государственных финансов, рост налогов и вызванные ими народные движения. Даётся историографический обзор литературы о Ришелье и...
М. – Л.: Наука, 1965. — 370 с.
В первых двух главах на основе критического разбора теорий «всеобщего кризиса» и «всеобщей революции» в XVII в. поставлена проблема особенностей мануфактурного этапа в развитии капитализма в целом и соответствовавших этому этапу социальных отношений. В последующих главах мы стремились изучить то особенное положение, в котором оказались в...
Москва; Ленинград: Наука, 1965. — 370 с. В первых двух главах на основе критического разбора теорий «всеобщего кризиса» и «всеобщей революции» в XVII в. поставлена проблема особенностей мануфактурного этапа в развитии капитализма в целом и соответствовавших этому этапу социальных отношений. В последующих главах мы стремились изучить то особенное положение, в котором оказались в...
Монография. — Москва: Наука, 2009. — 497 с. Монография посвящена Парламентской Фронде — необычному историческому конфликту между абсолютистским правительством и его судейским аппаратом. На обширном материале опубликованных и архивных источников автор раскрывает характер Парламентской Фронды как исторически подготовленного конфликта между двумя альтернативными путями развития...
Монография. — Москва: Наука, 2009. — 497 с. Монография посвящена Парламентской Фронде — необычному историческому конфликту между абсолютистским правительством и его судейским аппаратом. На обширном материале опубликованных и архивных источников автор раскрывает характер Парламентской Фронды как исторически подготовленного конфликта между двумя альтернативными путями развития...
Монография. — Москва: Наука, 2009. — 497 с. Монография посвящена Парламентской Фронде — необычному историческому конфликту между абсолютистским правительством и его судейским аппаратом. На обширном материале опубликованных и архивных источников автор раскрывает характер Парламентской Фронды как исторически подготовленного конфликта между двумя альтернативными путями развития...
Монография. — Москва: Наука, 2009. — 497 с. Монография посвящена Парламентской Фронде — необычному историческому конфликту между абсолютистским правительством и его судейским аппаратом. На обширном материале опубликованных и архивных источников автор раскрывает характер Парламентской Фронды как исторически подготовленного конфликта между двумя альтернативными путями развития...
Монография. — Москва: Наука, 1991. — 231 с. В монографии рассмотрена основная проблематика социальной и экономической политики Ж.-Б. Кольбера (1661—1683 гг.) в связи с ключевыми вопросами французского абсолютизма и генезиса капитализма. Автор пишет о кольбертизме как политике абсолютной монархии на стадии утверждения административно-бюрократической системы управления. В...
М.: Наука, 1991. — 231 с. В монографии рассмотрена основная проблематика социальной и экономической политики Ж.-Б. Кольбера (1661—1683 гг.) в связи с ключевыми вопросами французского абсолютизма и генезиса капитализма. Автор пишет о кольбертизме как политике абсолютной монархии на стадии утверждения административно-бюрократической системы управления. В отечественной...
СПб.: Евразия, 2002. — 288 с. Книга французского ученого Э. Маня знакомит читателя с нравами галантного XVII столетия, когда жили и сражались столь хорошо известные герои А. Дюма — три мушкетера. Автор воскрешает на страницах книги неповторимый аромат того времени, привычки и пристрастия знати, буржуа и простолюдинов, мир салонов и узеньких улиц Парижа. Перед читателем...
СПб.: Евразия, 2002. — 288 с. Книга французского ученого Э. Маня знакомит читателя с нравами галантного XVII столетия, когда жили и сражались столь хорошо известные герои А. Дюма — три мушкетера. Автор воскрешает на страницах книги неповторимый аромат того времени, привычки и пристрастия знати, буржуа и простолюдинов, мир салонов и узеньких улиц Парижа. Перед читателем...
Пер. с франц. Васильковой А.С. — СПб.: Евразия, 2002. — 288 с. Книга французского ученого Э. Маня знакомит читателя с нравами галантного XVII столетия, когда жили и сражались столь хорошо известные герои А. Дюма — три мушкетера. Автор воскрешает на страницах книги неповторимый аромат того времени, привычки и пристрастия знати, буржуа и простолюдинов, мир салонов и узеньких улиц...
Москва: Олимп-Бизнес, 2017. — 336 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9693-0363-8. Книга представляет собой захватывающую историю взлета и падения главы финансового ведомства двора Людовика XIV - Никола Фуке. Тщательное и захватывающее биографическое описание одного из самых успешных министров двора, ученика и наместника кардинала Мазарини строится на многочисленных исторических источниках. Книга...
М.: Издательство Академии Наук СССР, 1948. — 724 с. Об издании: Автор посвятил свой труд но истории самой Фронды, а ее предыстории. Он следовал правилу: если ты хочешь понять что-либо, узнай, как оно возникло. Чтобы выйти из замкнутого круга аргументов, уже не раз приводившихся и опровергавшихся историками Фронды разных направлений, автор отступил от хронологических рамок...
Монография. — М. — Л.: АН СССР, 1948. — 724 с.: ил. Многостраничное изображение с текстовым слоем . Б.Ф. Поршнев в своей книге (Сталинская премия за 1950 г.) исследует народные восстания переломных лет во Франции перед Фрондой; борьбу классов, внутренние социальные движения. Согласно Поршневу бунт — это довольно работоспособная стратегия самозащиты народа. Причем особенно она...
М.: Родина, 2023. — 222 с. Кардинал де Ришелье широко известен благодаря «Трем мушкетерам» Александра Дюма. В этом романе он представлен как коварный и беспринципный политик, думающий прежде всего о личной выгоде. На самом деле Ришелье был выдающимся государственным деятелем, при котором Франция стала ведущей державой Европы. Занимая пост главного министра, Ришелье вникал во...
М.: Родина, 2023. — 222 с. Кардинал де Ришелье широко известен благодаря «Трем мушкетерам» Александра Дюма. В этом романе он представлен как коварный и беспринципный политик, думающий прежде всего о личной выгоде. На самом деле Ришелье был выдающимся государственным деятелем, при котором Франция стала ведущей державой Европы. Занимая пост главного министра, Ришелье вникал во...
Пер. Н. Цветковой. — Москва: Родина, 2023. — 272 с. — (Сила мысли). — ISBN 978-5-00222-012-0. Кардинал де Ришелье широко известен благодаря «Трем мушкетерам» Александра Дюма. В этом романе он представлен как коварный и беспринципный политик, думающий прежде всего о личной выгоде. На самом деле Ришелье был выдающимся государственным деятелем, при котором Франция стала ведущей...
Пер. с фр. Л. А. Сифуровой; предисл., общ. ред. Л. Л. Головина. — М.: Ладомир, 2008. — 501 с. — ISBN 978-5-86218-434-1.
Для русского читателя Арман-Жан дю Плесси, кардинал де Ришельё (1585–1642), – в первую очередь персонаж «Трёх мушкетёров» Александра Дюма. Но с реальным историческим деятелем романный образ имеет очень мало общего. Каким в действительности был кардинал...
Пер. с фр. Л. А. Сифуровой; предисл., общ. ред. Л. Л. Головина. — М.: Ладомир, 2008. — 501 с. — ISBN: 978-5-86218-434-1. Для русского читателя Арман-Жан дю Плесси, кардинал де Ришельё (1585–1642), – в первую очередь персонаж «Трёх мушкетёров» Александра Дюма. Но с реальным историческим деятелем романный образ имеет очень мало общего. Каким в действительности был кардинал...
Пер. с фр. Л. А. Сифуровой; предисл., общ. ред. Л. Л. Головина. — М.: Ладомир, 2008. — 501 с. — ISBN: 978-5-86218-434-1. Для русского читателя Арман-Жан дю Плесси, кардинал де Ришельё (1585–1642), – в первую очередь персонаж «Трёх мушкетёров» Александра Дюма. Но с реальным историческим деятелем романный образ имеет очень мало общего. Каким в действительности был кардинал...
Москва: Ладомир, 2008. — 501 с. Для русского читателя Арман-Жан дю Плесси, кардинал де Ришельё (1585–1642), – в первую очередь персонаж «Трёх мушкетёров» Александра Дюма. Но с реальным историческим деятелем романный образ имеет очень мало общего. Каким в действительности был кардинал Ришельё? Полнее всего на этот вопрос отвечает его собственное «Политическое завещание», написанное...
СПб: Типография Акинфиева и Леонтьева, 1902. — 570 с. Перевод с французского. Классическая работа французского историка Феликса Рокэна (Rocquain, 1833-1925) «L'Esprit révolutionnaire avant la Révolution: 1715-1789», исследование зарождения и развития революционного духа во Франции при Старом порядке, впервые была издана в 1878-м в Париже, в 1879 году была награждена престижной...
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Оглавление:
Тюрго и его новейший биограф
От автора
Часть первая....
М.: Прогресс, 1979. - 567 с.
В книге описывается деятельность французского правительства в период министерства Тюрго. Автор ставит вопрос, не могли ли реформы Тюрго предотвратить Великую Французскую революцию, и пытается на основе обширной источниковой базы определить его место во французской истории.
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