Title: The life and political writings of Louis Dorléans, publicist of the French Catholic League
First published: 1999
Description: This is an attempt to describe the competing constitutional arguments about the nature and foundations of the idea of political sovereignty of the French monarchy amidst the Catholic and Huguenot political and clerical advocates during the last years of the 16th century.  Eventually the arguments, which were extreme and violent, morphed into the politique solution.  Thus they embraced the contradictory elements of absolutism, both monarchic and democratic.
Subjects: Constitutional history, History, Sainte Ligue (1576-1593)
Places: France
People: Louis Dorléans (1542-1629)
Time periods: Wars of Religion in France, 1562-1598