Chief Minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. One of the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he has captured the imagination of generations, both through the story of his life and through Alexandre Dumas's...
Boston: D.C.Heath and Company, 1963. — 120 p. Excerpts from prominent French and English historians examine both the beneficial and negative aspects of the reign of Louis X1V upon the future development of France. “ Louis XIV did more good for his country than twenty of his predecessors together and what he accomplished fell far short of what he might have done.” Voltaire....
Didactic Press, 2015. — 448 p. "He died with constancy and resignation, and the last days of his life show him to more advantage as a man than the season of his greatest glory and prosperity. It had been well for his people had the aged monarch been impressed at an earlier period of his reign with those words of counsel which he addressed on his deathbed to the youthful...
Anchor Books, 2007. — 432 p. Louis XIV, the highly-feted “Sun King”, was renowned for his political and cultural influence and for raising France to a new level of prominence in seventeenth-century Europe. And yet, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was equally legendary in the domestic sphere. Indeed, a panoply of women — his mother, Anne; mistresses such as Louise de la...
Random House, 2001. — 512 p. Brilliantly written, a work of impeccable scholarship. An utterly riveting and intensely moving book by one of our finest biographers. Never before has the life of Marie Antoinette been told so intimately and with such authority as in Antonia Fraser's newest work, Marie Antoinette: The Journey. Famously known as the eighteenth-century French queen...
Arnold Publishers, 2000. — 241 p. Louis XVI was at the center of the French Revolution, one of the major turning points in world history, but he remains relatively little known, often portrayed only as the weak, lazy, and treasonous king dominated by Marie-Antoinette. This new investigation by John Hardman, a leading expert on the French Revolution, challenges this stereotype....
Yale University Press, 2019. — 376 p. A new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously "out of touch" queen. Who was the real Marie-Antoinette? She was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, and today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and...
Ohio State University Press, 1976. — 311 p. This is no where more obvious than in the career of the Sun King (assuming kings can have a career). Louis XIV comes over as a number of models, the authoritarian king, the narcissistic glam-rock king, and a Catholic bogeyman king seeking to impose Catholicism on the free by suppressing minorities. We would not want to go totally...
Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York Compulsory registration and its limits, 1665–1671 Victory over the parlements, 1671–1675 Venal office and the royal breakthrough The ordeal of the parlementaires The regent and the parlements: the bid for cooperation Confronting the Parlement of Paris, 1718
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2016. — 315 p. The Splendid Century , penned by the brother of famous author C. S. Lewis (“Alice in Wonderland”), is a depiction of various aspects of life in France during the reign of Louis XIV, gleaned through the author’s thorough research of records, correspondence, and journals of the time. Using anecdotal evidence, the book probes in detail...
Pickle Partners Publishing, 2016. — 315 p. The Splendid Century , penned by the brother of famous author C. S. Lewis (“Alice in Wonderland”), is a depiction of various aspects of life in France during the reign of Louis XIV, gleaned through the author’s thorough research of records, correspondence, and journals of the time. Using anecdotal evidence, the book probes in detail...
Penguin Books, 2019. — 512 p. — ISBN: 978-1-846145-99-6. Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, dominated his age. In the second half of the seventeenth century, he extended France's frontiers into the Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies in America, Africa and India. Louisiana, which once occupied a third of the territory of the present-day United States, is named...
Didactic Press, 2015. — 401 p. The reign of Louis XIV. extended over seventy years, and in so long a period it largely modified the institutions and the power of France. Her European position was far more commanding at the close of the seventeenth century than at its beginning. Alike in political power, in the influence exercised by her society, in the attention attracted by...
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...
Batoche Books Kitchener 2004. — 79 p. The Economic Policy of Colbert is the result of work done in connection with the London School of Economics and Political Science. It was originally written for, and obtained, the Whately Prize at Trinity College, Dublin; so that its scope is necessarily limited. No attempt has been made to give a detailed or elaborate treatment of...
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