San Diego: ReferencePoint Press, Inc., 2015. — 96 p. — (History’s great structures). — ISBN: 978-1-60152-684-7 The Palace of Versailles began as the symbol of Louis XIVs reign as absolute monarch of France. With its masterful architecture, lavish interior, and exquisite gardens, Versailles was the standard by which other palaces were measured. But the very opulence that made...
Brill, 2007. — 212 p. Claude de Seyssel's important political treatise, The Monarchy of France (1515) illuminates the link between warfare, the state, and the social order in the Renaissance. In his effort to describe a state capable of conquest and expansion, Seyssel envisioned a new social and political order with radical implications for the French monarchy.
Routledge, 1996. — 432 p. — ISBN: 0415063337. Based on exhaustive archival research, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the neglected ministries of the duc de Bourbon and the cardinal de Fleury. Power and Politics in Old Regime France is a major history of the politics of the first half of the reign of Louis XV. It is based on exhaustive archival research and offers a...
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 369 p. French manners and civility were the model for European civilization, while feud is associated with backward societies. Yet in France thousands of men died in duels in which the supposed rules of honour were regularly flouted. In this detailed and original book Stuart Carroll explores the nature of vengeance and reveals the dark side of...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 378 p. Martyrs and Murderers tells the story of three generations of treacherous, bloodthirsty power-brokers. One of the richest and most powerful families in sixteenth-century France, the House of Guise played a pivotal role in the history of Europe. Among the staunchest opponents of the Reformation, they whipped up religious bigotry throughout...
Harper, 2018. — 384 p. The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a great monarch - Francis I - who turned France into a great nation. Catherine de Medici’s father-in-law, King Francis of France, was the perfect Renaissance...
Princeton University Press, 1980. — 601 p. By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections. This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the eve of the French Revolution. Charles...
Duke University Press, 1996. — 776 p. In preindustrial Europe, dependence on grain shaped every phase of life from economic development to spiritual expression, and the problem of subsistence dominated the everyday order of things in a merciless and unremitting way. Steven Laurence Kaplan’s The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700–1775 focuses on the production and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. - 397 p. - (The Northern World 32). This economic and social history assesses the impact of the coastal wine and brandy trade on the early modern French, Dutch, and Atlantic economies, and highlights the importance of interconnecting personal networks of Dutch, Sephardic Jewish, and New Christian merchants.
Monograph. Second edition. Cambridge University Press, 2005. - 243 p. (Serie "NEW APPROACHES TO EUROPEAN HISTORY"). This is a new edition of Mack P. Holt’s classic study of the French religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on the scholarship of social and cultural historians of the Reformation, it shows how religion infused both politics and the...
Perrin, un département d’Édi8, 2016 — 350 p. Pour la première fois, les portraits croisés des femmes qui firent Versailles, de Mme de Maintenon à Marie-Antoinette. Résidence des trois derniers rois de France de l'Ancien Régime, Versailles fut également le séjour de leurs épouses : Marie-Thérèse, qui y mourut en 1683, Marie Leszczynska, qui y vécut de 1725 à 1768, et...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. — 409 p. Few studies of the history of provincial France have hitherto spanned the conventional medieval/early-modern divide, and David Potter's detailed examination of war and government in Picardy, a region of France hitherto neglected by historians, has much to say about the development of French absolutism. Picardy emerged as a province...
University of California Press, 1996. — 422 p. This book, the culmination of a lifelong career in French history, tackles head-on the central question of the French Religious Wars: Why did France prove so consistently hostile and resistant to Protestantism? Distinguished scholar Nancy Lyman Roelker claims that what ultimately motivated the passion and violence of the civil wars...
University of California Press, 1992. — 320 p. The example of Old Regime France provides a source for many of the ideas about capitalism, modernization, and peasant protest that concern social scientists today. Hilton Root challenges traditional assumptions and proposes a new interpretation of the relationship between state and society.
Athens: Ohio State University Press, 1983. — 305 p. — ISBN-10: 0814203418; ISBN-13: 978-0814203415 The Council and its place in the Government The Creation of the Council The Organization and Functioning of the Council The Deputies of Trade and Their General Memoirs The Chambers of Commerce and Local Privileges The work of the Council Enemy and Neutral Trade Regulation of...
University of Adelaide Press, 2013 - 302 p. — ISBN: 978-1-922064 — 52 — 3. Quality: e-book The French connection with the South Seas stretches back at least as far as the voyage of Binot Paulmier de Gonneville (1503-1505), who believed he had discovered the fabled great south land after being blown off course during a storm near the Cape of Good Hope. It was not until the...
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