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| List of Significant Dates | |
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| Maps | |
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| Family Trees | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Louis XIV and French Monarchy | |
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| The Law of Succession | |
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| The Sacred Character of Monarchy | |
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| Sacred Monarchy Reaffirmed | |
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| The Memoires of Louis XIV: Conception and Composition | |
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| Louis XIV and the Ritual of Monarchy | |
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| Public Representations of Louis XIV | |
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| Versailles and Court Ritual | |
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| Court Ritual | |
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| Louis XIV and the Government of France | |
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| The Period 1643 to 1661 | |
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| Cardinal Jules Mazarin (1602-61) | |
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| The Frondes | |
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| The Significance of the Frondes | |
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| From the End of the Frondes to the Death of Mazarin | |
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| The Personal Reign, 1661 to 1715 | |
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| The Intendants | |
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| Louis XIV and his Subjects | |
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| The King's Subjects | |
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| Governmental Finance under Louis XIV | |
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| Government and the Economy | |
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| Justice | |
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| Social Control | |
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| Louis XIV and the Churches | |
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| The Catholic Church in France | |
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| Gallicanism | |
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| Jansenism | |
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| Factional Influences on Louis XIV | |
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| The Huguenots | |
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| Louis XIV and the Direction of Ideas in France | |
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| The Concept of 'Academies' | |
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| State Academies under Louis XIV: The Visual Arts | |
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| The Academie des Sciences | |
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| Other Academies | |
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| Universities and Colleges | |
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| Books and Printing | |
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| 'Fin-de-Siecle' and the Regime of Louis XIV | |
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| Fenelon | |
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| Saint-Simon | |
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| Louis XIV and Europe | |
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| The Instruments of Policy | |
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| Warfare, the Army and Navy | |
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| Principles Underlying Louis's Foreign Policy | |
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| Louis and Europe in the Early 1660s | |
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| The Spanish Succession and War of Devolution | |
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| The Origins and Outcome of the Dutch War, 1672-78 | |
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| The War of the League of Augsburg (The Nine Years' War) | |
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| The War of the Spanish Succession | |
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| Aims and Course of the War | |
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| Concluding Discussion | |
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| Jean Bodin and the Six Livres de la Republique | |
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| Continuing Debates concerning 'Absolute Monarchy' | |
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| Absolute Monarchy and Government | |
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| Notes and References | |
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| Bibliographical Guide | |
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| Index | |