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Author: Jim Coons Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 672
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During Louis XIV's early reign, the Grand Condé redefined the French monarchy and community. This study focuses on Louis II de Bourbon, the "Grand" Prince of Condé, whose royal blood and battlefield exploits made him a national hero and an icon of the French nobility. During the civil wars of the Fronde (1648-1653), however, his divisive choices and treasonous Spanish alliance blackened his reputation, making him an antihero and scapegoat. His actions thus influenced the development of absolutism directly, while his image provided a focal point for debates over royal power, noble identity, and national community in France. I argue that the rhetoric that arose from debates over his image and actions defined the limits and dynamics of royal power under the absolute monarchy. My study builds a more holistic, transnational, and multi-dimensional understanding of the Sun King's authority, by analyzing the relationships that mutually defined state power, personal identity, and national community. Using private correspondence, popular pamphlets, and royal records, I examine the claims that erupted from all sides during the Fronde. The Prince adopted a political ethos rooted in personal qualities; the royal party's "Statist" model emphasized the King's discretion and unlimited power; and frondeurs stressed the moral obligations to serve the patrie ("motherland") community. Each faction fought to establish its vision of French society, but the Crown's victory enabled it to adopt elements of each party's ideas, inaugurating "patriotic kingship." My research shows how harmonizing Condé's personal kingship with the Fronde's patrie and royals' Statism rendered subjects' bond to France and its King a simultaneously moral, legal, and embodied duty. At the same time, the Crown frequently moderated its claims, pardoned transgressions, or otherwise adapted to circumstances. Thus, the experience of the Fronde underpinned the expansion of royal power in discourse, at the same time that it set a precedent for the "negotiated absolutism" that characterized its power in practice. In sum, I argue that Condé's relationship with the King during the Fronde helped to make state authority stronger, more intimate, and more flexible than ever.
Author: Jim Coons Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 672
Book Description
During Louis XIV's early reign, the Grand Condé redefined the French monarchy and community. This study focuses on Louis II de Bourbon, the "Grand" Prince of Condé, whose royal blood and battlefield exploits made him a national hero and an icon of the French nobility. During the civil wars of the Fronde (1648-1653), however, his divisive choices and treasonous Spanish alliance blackened his reputation, making him an antihero and scapegoat. His actions thus influenced the development of absolutism directly, while his image provided a focal point for debates over royal power, noble identity, and national community in France. I argue that the rhetoric that arose from debates over his image and actions defined the limits and dynamics of royal power under the absolute monarchy. My study builds a more holistic, transnational, and multi-dimensional understanding of the Sun King's authority, by analyzing the relationships that mutually defined state power, personal identity, and national community. Using private correspondence, popular pamphlets, and royal records, I examine the claims that erupted from all sides during the Fronde. The Prince adopted a political ethos rooted in personal qualities; the royal party's "Statist" model emphasized the King's discretion and unlimited power; and frondeurs stressed the moral obligations to serve the patrie ("motherland") community. Each faction fought to establish its vision of French society, but the Crown's victory enabled it to adopt elements of each party's ideas, inaugurating "patriotic kingship." My research shows how harmonizing Condé's personal kingship with the Fronde's patrie and royals' Statism rendered subjects' bond to France and its King a simultaneously moral, legal, and embodied duty. At the same time, the Crown frequently moderated its claims, pardoned transgressions, or otherwise adapted to circumstances. Thus, the experience of the Fronde underpinned the expansion of royal power in discourse, at the same time that it set a precedent for the "negotiated absolutism" that characterized its power in practice. In sum, I argue that Condé's relationship with the King during the Fronde helped to make state authority stronger, more intimate, and more flexible than ever.
Author: Mark Bannister Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351198335 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 195
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"Louis II de Bourbon (1621-86), known as Le Grand Conde, stood alongside Richelieu and Mazarin as one of the key figures who shaped the reign of Louis XIV. In response to profound upheavals in their world, his contemporaries looked to him to satisfy their need for a hero. Originally the warrior-hero par excellence, Conde was redefined by successive generations as the ideal subject of the absolutist state, as the epitome of civilized behaviour and, finally, as the exemplar of the triumph of faith over reason. In this first detailed study in English of Le Grand Conde's significance for his contemporaries, Mark Bannister reveals the complexity of the ideological patterns forming and reforming in seventeenth-century France, and the perennial need to believe in the existence of an iconic figure, incarnating new values as they emerge."
Author: Pamela Cowen Publisher: Third Millennium Information Ltd ISBN: 9781903942208 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 224
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This beautifully illustrated volume, published in conjunction with a landmark exhibition at The Fan Museum, Greenwich, gathers together a marvellous group of over 40 fans and fan leaves dating from the reign of Louis XIV.In this fascinating book, daily life and times at the court of the 'Sun King', including well-known figures such as Madames de Montespan and Maintenon, as well as other royal and court figures, visiting dignitaries and national events, are discussed in considerable detail. Many scenes are set in the grounds of Versailles and these are identified by the author, whose impeccable research provides the gossip 'straight from the horse's mouth'. All this is presented in the vehicle of the folding fan, which rose to prominence under Louis XIV. He inspired subject matter for painted fan leaves, and moreover imposed strict etiquette at court involving the use (and non-use) of fans.
Author: Giora Sternberg Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191651567 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 224
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Who preceded whom? Who wore what? Which form of address should one use? One of the most striking aspects of the early modern period is the crucial significance that contemporaries ascribed to such questions. In this hierarchical world, status symbols did not simply mirror a pre-defined social and political order; rather, they operated as a key tool for defining and redefining identities, relations, and power. Centuries later, scholars face the twofold challenge of evaluating status interaction in an era where its open pursuit is no longer as widespread and legitimate, and of deciphering its highly sophisticated and often implicit codes. Status Interaction during the Reign of Louis XIV addresses this challenge by investigating status interaction - in dress as in address, in high ceremony and in everyday life - at one of its most important historical arenas: aristocratic society at the time of Louis XIV. By recovering actual practices on the ground based on a wide array of printed and manuscript sources, it transcends the simplistic view of a court revolving around the Sun King and reveals instead the multiple perspectives of contesting actors, stakes, and strategies. Demonstrating the wide-ranging implications of the phenomenon, macro-political as well as micro-political, this study provides a novel framework for understanding early modern action and agency.
Author: Michaël Green Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004153071 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 464
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An examination of instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy. It opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies through examination of a wide array of sources, discourses, practices, and spatial programmes.
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