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ISBN 10: 1315842491

ISBN 13: 9781315842493

Author: Geoffrey Treasure

Louis IV represents the apogee of French royal power and the Ancien Regime. Having restored the nation’s finances and rebuilt the army, he embarked on a series of wars of conquest which made France universally feared and respected as the central power of continental Europe. In the age of Moliere, Corneille, Racine et al, French culture blossomed at the court of Versailles. The counterpoint to these achievements was the emasculation of the political and legal institutions that might have limited the exercise of the royal will. In this new history, Geoffrey Treasure explores a unique combination of a personal philosophy, moulded by absolutist thinking and propaganda, and by Marzarin’s deliberate training. He examines the influences and traits which permitted the growth of this particular exercise of power and its descent into an absolutism that ultimately set France on the road to 1789.

Louis XIV 1st Table of contents:

1 Preparing for Power
The God-given
The Fronde
Mazarin: Minister, Guardian and Tutor
The Anointed King
The Ecclesiastical Fronde
A Constitutional Balance
A Ruler’s Duty

2 Louis XIV’s Subjects
The Poor Have No Reserves
Peasant Farming
The Feudal Régime
Nobility
Bourgeois France

3 Personal Rule
The Case of Fouquet
Absolutism
The French Royal Tradition: Inspiration and Restraint
Parlement and Gallicanism
‘A Delightful Business’
Councils and Ministers
The Intendants

4 Wealth and Power: Colbert
The Perfect Royal Servant
The State’s Finances
Manufactures
Trade and Sea Power

5 The Power of the Army
A Defective Instrument
Control, Discipline and Recruitment
Weaponry, Fortresses and Supply

6 Power Abroad
The World of Diplomacy
The Great Treaties
Trials of Strength
‘Desire to Attack the Dutch’
The Dutch War
‘I Fully Rejoice in My Clever Conduct’

7 Versailles: The Display of Power
‘Great Buildings, Their Magnificence’
The Problem of Paris
A New Palace
Significant Rituals
An Unhealthy Dependence

8 The Temptation of Power
‘The Grand Doge’
A Defensible Frontier
Vienna: A Decisive Moment

9 Power and Conformity
The Huguenot Question
Huguenot Crisis; Catholic Ascendancy
The Edict of Fontainebleau
Emigrés and Rebels

10 France Against Europe: The Nine Years War
Louvois’s War
Towards Total War
The Necessity of Peace
A New Moderation

11 The Great Prize
Treaty or Will

12 The Great War
A War on Four Fronts
‘There Are Murmurs at His Very Door’
‘Conditions So Contrary to Justice’
Peace at Last
Europe’s Changing Face

13 The Price of War
The Money Famine
Desperate Measures
A Crisis of Morale: Colbertism Challenged
An Alternative Voice: Fénelon
Great Expectations — and Tragic Losses

14 Faith, Reason and Authority
Jansenism
An Uneasy Peace
Self-Inflicted Wounds
Quietism

15 ‘A King at Every Moment’
A Brave End
Post-Mortem: Another Regency
Envoi

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