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Acknowledgements | ||
Preface | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Valois and Early Bourbons | 7 |
Medieval inheritances | 7 | |
Decentralised corporations | 8 | |
Agents of centralisation | 16 | |
Collapse and recovery | 18 | |
Richelieu | 23 | |
The Fronde | 29 | |
2 | Louis XIV Reassessed | 35 |
Royal authority | 35 | |
The court of the Sun King - a cliche re-examined | 38 | |
Instruments of absolutism? | 40 | |
Patrons, brokers and clients | 45 | |
The elite | 49 | |
Instruments of self-government | 52 | |
3 | A High Road to Revolution? | 61 |
Faction and ideology | 62 | |
Despotism or consent? | 66 | |
A formative minority | 69 | |
Louis XV and Louis XVI | 71 | |
The wages of despotism | 72 | |
The dominance of court faction | 74 | |
4 | France and England: Absolutism Versus Limited Monarchy? | 80 |
Monarchs | 80 | |
Courtiers | 85 | |
Despots | 89 | |
Bureaucrats | 91 | |
Aristocrats | 92 | |
5 | France and England: Absolutism Versus Parliamentary Liberties? | 101 |
Parliaments, Estates and parlements | 101 | |
1688: the great divide? | 108 | |
Economic and fiscal policy | 112 | |
Civil liberties | 114 | |
6 | A Theory of Absolutism? | 120 |
Problems of evidence | 120 | |
The concept of the state | 122 | |
Theories of royal sovereignty | 123 | |
Bodin and absolutist theory | 126 | |
Two spheres of royal authority | 128 | |
Absolutist legislative and emergency power? | 133 | |
Absolutist versus constitutional ideologies? | 137 | |
Divine right absolutism? | 141 | |
Conclusions | 143 | |
7 | Royal Prerogatives and their Context | 148 |
Personal monarchy | 148 | |
Prerogatives and their justification | 150 | |
The main prerogatives | 152 | |
Agents of the prerogative | 161 | |
Prerogative enthroned | 164 | |
Prerogative dethroned | 167 | |
Conclusions | 170 | |
8 | Liberties and Consent | 176 |
Monarchs and despots | 177 | |
The rituals of consent | 179 | |
Estates: crushed or co-operating? | 182 | |
Conflict | 186 | |
Enlightened Despotism | 191 | |
9 | Life-Cycle of a Myth | 199 |
Birth | 200 | |
Childhood | 201 | |
Adolescence | 203 | |
Maturity | 207 | |
Senility | 210 | |
Glossary of Recurrent Terms | 215 | |
Bibliographical Essay | 217 | |
Appendix I: The Regusse clientele | 227 | |
Appendix II: The Oppede clientele | 228 | |
Appendix III: Major European monarchs 1461-1833 | 230 | |
Map: Pre-revolutionary France: principal administrative, judicial, and fiscal subdivisions | 235 | |
Index | 236 |
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