Author: Marie de Médicis
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Languages : fr
Pages : 8
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Lettre de la Royne Mere escrite au Roy [Angoulême, 4 avril 1619]. Ensemble l'espee et escharpe rendue au Prince de Condé par sa Majesté
Exile, Imprisonment, Or Death
Author: Julian Swann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019878869X
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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On the accession of Louis XIII in 1610 following the assassination of his father, the Bourbon dynasty stood on unstable foundations. For all of Henri IV's undoubted achievements, he had left his son a realm that was still prey to the ambitions of an aristocracy that possessed independentmilitary force and was prepared to resort to violence and vendetta in order to defend its interests and honour. To establish his personal authority, Louis XIII was forced to resort to conspiracy and murder, and even then his authority was constantly challenged. Yet a little over a century later, asthe reign of Louis XIV drew to a close, such disobedience was impossible. Instead, a simple royal command expressing the sovereign's disgrace was sufficient to compel the most powerful men and women in the kingdom to submit to imprisonment or internal exile without a trial or an opportunity tojustify their conduct, abandoning their normal lives, leaving families, careers, offices, and possessions behind in obedience to their sovereign.To explain that transformation, this volume examines the development of this new "politics of disgrace", why it emerged, how it was conceptualised, the conventions that governed its use, and reactions to it, not only from the perspective of the monarch and his noble subjects, but also the greatcorporations of the realm and the wider public. Although that new model of disgrace proved remarkably successful, influencing the ideas and actions of the dominant social elites, it was nevertheless contested, and the critique of disgrace connects to the second aim of this work, which is to useshifting attitudes to the practice as a means of investigating the nature of Ancien Regime political culture and some of the dramatic and profound changes it experienced in the years separating Louis XIII's dramatic seizure of power from the French Revolution.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019878869X
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
On the accession of Louis XIII in 1610 following the assassination of his father, the Bourbon dynasty stood on unstable foundations. For all of Henri IV's undoubted achievements, he had left his son a realm that was still prey to the ambitions of an aristocracy that possessed independentmilitary force and was prepared to resort to violence and vendetta in order to defend its interests and honour. To establish his personal authority, Louis XIII was forced to resort to conspiracy and murder, and even then his authority was constantly challenged. Yet a little over a century later, asthe reign of Louis XIV drew to a close, such disobedience was impossible. Instead, a simple royal command expressing the sovereign's disgrace was sufficient to compel the most powerful men and women in the kingdom to submit to imprisonment or internal exile without a trial or an opportunity tojustify their conduct, abandoning their normal lives, leaving families, careers, offices, and possessions behind in obedience to their sovereign.To explain that transformation, this volume examines the development of this new "politics of disgrace", why it emerged, how it was conceptualised, the conventions that governed its use, and reactions to it, not only from the perspective of the monarch and his noble subjects, but also the greatcorporations of the realm and the wider public. Although that new model of disgrace proved remarkably successful, influencing the ideas and actions of the dominant social elites, it was nevertheless contested, and the critique of disgrace connects to the second aim of this work, which is to useshifting attitudes to the practice as a means of investigating the nature of Ancien Regime political culture and some of the dramatic and profound changes it experienced in the years separating Louis XIII's dramatic seizure of power from the French Revolution.
Lettre de la reine mère, écrite au roi. (4 avril.) Ensemble l'epée et écharpe rendue au prince de Condé par Sa Majesté. (8 avril.).
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
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Dovble De La Response De La Royne Regente, Mere du Roy, à la Lettre escrite à sa Majesté, par Monseigneur le Prince de Condé le 19. de Feburier 1614
Author: Marie (France, Reine.)
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Languages : fr
Pages : 28
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Languages : fr
Pages : 28
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La dernière lettre de la royne mere. Escrit av roy, ensemble de la responde de sa Majesté
Dovble de la response de la royne regente, de France, mere du roy, à la lettre escrite à sa majesté, par monseigneur le prince de Condé, le 19. de feburier 1614
Seconde lettre de la royne mère envoyée au roy le 10. de mars 1619
Author: Marie de Médicis (reine de France)
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Languages : fr
Pages : 36
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Pages : 36
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Double de la response de la Royne régente, mère du Roy, à la lettre escrite à Sa Majesté par Mgr le prince de Condé, le dix-neuvième de février mil six cent quatorze [27 février 1614].
Author: Marie de Médicis (reine de France)
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Languages : fr
Pages : 19
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Languages : fr
Pages : 19
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