The Ancien Regime A History of France 1610 - 1774

by Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel

• ISBN13: 9780631211969
• ISBN10: 0631211969
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-05
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This story of brilliance, order and sophistication, supreme confidence, and great achievement begins in uncertainty and ends in iconoclasm. A great historian, in a balanced and vivid narrative, retells it here. This volume examines this rich and decadent period of French history, from the absolutism of Richelieu to the gluttonous rule of Louis XVI.

Author Biography

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is the author of numerous books - including the immensely successful Montaillouand Carnival - and many articles. He is a researcher with a high international reputation, and the diversity of his work and range of his publications have made him one of the foremost specialists on France's monarchical period.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vi
1 Temperate Monarchy in its Last Incarnation	1	(26)
PART 1 ABSOLUTISM IN ITS TRUE GRANDEUR	27	(250)
2 Reason of State and its Irrationalities	29	(53)
3 France and the Fronde: the Age of Anne of Austria and Mazarin	82	(44)
4 The Snake and the Sun	126	(54)
5 Gallican Extremism	180	(48)
6 Spain in the Heart	228	(49)
PART II FLEXIBLE AND ADAPTABLE: THE NEW ABSOLUTISM	277	(193)
7 The Overture	279	(39)
8 A Debonnaire Hercules	318	(55)
9 Reaction and Retraction	373	(32)
10 Public Opinion's First Successes	405	(32)
11 Order, Authority, Realm	437	(33)
Conclusion	470	(44)
Appendix 1: Chronological Table	514	(38)
Glossary	552	(5)
Select Bibliography	557	(9)
Index	566