Ranum Orest, Ranum Patricia. The Century of Louis XIV

McMillan Press, 1973. — 502 p.Introduction: A Perspective on General European History, 1650-1715.
Beginnings in War, Revolt, and Misery.
Reports of a Provincial Revolt.
The Parlement of Paris and the Fronde.
Mazarin on the Parlement during the Fronde.
Public Opinion, the Press, and the Mazarinades.
The Fronde of the Princes.
The French Countryside during Civil War.
Descartes and the Fronde.
The Monarch and His Kingdom.
The Character of the People in the Generalite of Paris.
Louis XIV, the God-Given Child.
Louis' Reflections on Kingship.
The Body, Its Functions, and Social Behavior.
Saint-Simon's Description of Louis XIV and His Coun.
Moreri's Description of France.
Louis XIV, Head of State.
Affection and Rivalry at Court.
Planning for the Immortality of Louis XIV.
Colbert on the Royal Finances.
Part III-National Rivalries, Particularisms, and Prejudices.
A Frenchman Observes Dutch Republican Culture and Politics.
Military Power and Dutch Republicanism.
Affairs of State and Private Interests.
England Described by an Englishman.
Visiting Amsterdam and Vienna.
A Frenchman Visits Rome.
John Locke Observes the Provincial Estates and the.
French Army.
Pufendorf's Description of Sweden.
National Prejudices.
Moscow and the Muscovites.
Christopher Wren's Visit to France.
The Plight of Spain as Observed by a Spanish Official.
A French View of Spain and the Spanish.
Paris Observed by an Englishman in 1698.
Pett's Comparative Religion, Politics, and Economics.
Language and Particularism.
The Battle for Europe.
Leibnitz's Advice to Louis XIV.
The Siege of Vienna and the Struggle for European Dominance.
The French Policy of Burning and Destruction.
A Personal Memoir on the French in the Rhineland.
A Debate between Sovereigns over the Causes of War in 1688.
The Glorious Revolution.
English Propaganda in Favor of Continuing the War.
An Assessment of French Strengths and Weaknesses.
The State and French Society.
Military Reform under Le Tellier and Louvois.
Colbert's Instructions for a General Survey of France.
An Intendant Reviews Tax Assessments.
Louis XIV's Income in 1692.
Definitions of Nobility by the State.
The Problem of Religious Uniformity.
The Revocation of the Edict of Names.
The Camisard Revolts.
An Intendant's View of the Camisard War.
Absolutism, Bourgeois Values, and Charity in Paris.
Accounts and Statistics of Royal Charity in Paris.
Selections from a Treatise on Torture.
The Merchants and the State.
Boulainvilliers' Critique of the Intendants.
La Bruyere on War and Human Nature.
Baville on Fiscal Policies after Louis XIV's Death.
Fenelon's Critique of Louis XIV's Policies.
Death and the Common Virtues.
Education and the State.
The Last Agony of Making Peace.
Matthew Prior's Negotiations in France.
The Correspondence of Henry St. John.
A Final Assessment by a Country Priest.