Louis XIV and absolutism
By: edited by Ragnhild Hatton.
Contributors: Hatton, Ragnhild Marie.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1976
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Despotism.; France -- Politics and government -- 1643-1715.; France -- Economic conditions.
Notes: Thirteen articles, eleven translated from the French originals.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Kossmann, E. H. The singularity of absolutism.; title: Durand, G. What is absolutism?; title: Mousnier, R. The development of monarchial institutions and society in France.; title: Dumont, F. French kingship and absolute monarchy in the seventeenth century.; title: Bluche, F. The social origins of the secretaries of state under Louis XIV, 1661-1715.; title: Lossky, A. The intellectual development of Louis XIV from 1661 to 1715.; title: Levron, J. Louis XIV courtiers.; title: Orcibal, J. Louis XIV and the Edict of Nantes.; title: Livet, G. Royal administration in a frontier province: the intendancy of Alsace under Louis XIV.; title: Meuvret, J. Fiscalism and public opinion under Louis XIV..; title: Deyon, P. Manufacturing industries in seventeenth-century France.; title: Wismes, A de. The French Navy under Louis XIV.; title: Bouvier, J. The Protestant bankers in France, from the revocation of the Edict of Nantes to the Revolution.