Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Absolutism
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Absolutism
- Spain
- England
-
James I & VI (b.1566, r. 1566 {Scotland), r. {England} 1603 - 1625):
A Trew Law of Free Monarchies
, excerpts, [Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive]
Also includes and address to parliament in 1610.
- James I & VI (b.1566, r. 1566 {Scotland), r. {England} 1603 - 1625):
True Law of Free Monarchies
, 1598 [At this Site]
-
James I & VI (b.1566, r. 1566 {Scotland), r. {England} 1603 - 1625):
A Trew Law of Free Monarchies
, excerpts, [At Michigan]
- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679):
Leviathan
, 1651, extracts [At
this Site]
-
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679):
Leviathan
,
1651, extracts [Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive]
-
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679):
Leviathan
,
1651 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Prussia
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France and the Ancient Regime
- The Crisis: The French Wars of Religion
- The Creation of Absolutist France
- The Sun King
- Bishop Jacques Bossuet:
Political
Treatise on Kingship
[At Hanover][Excerpts]
RG
Reading Guide
- Jean Domat (1625-1696):
On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy
,
1697 [At this Site]
RG
Reading Guide
-
Louis XIV:
Letter to the Town
Officers and People of Marseilles
, August 26, 1664 [At Hanover]
On economic modernization.
- Louis XIV:
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
, October
22, 1685 [At this Site]
- Duc de Saint-Simon:
The Court of Louis XIV
, from
Memoires
[At this Site]
-
Comte de Saint Simon:
Memoires of of Louis XIV
[Was At Then Again, now Internet Archive][Excerpts]
- The Duchess of Orleans:
Versailles Etiquette
, 1704 [At
this Site]
-
Louis XIV:
Accounts
, [At
Hanover][Excerpts]
- Voltaire (1694-1778): The Age of Louis XIV [At this Site]
- L'hercule triomphant ou les heureux succes de sa Majeste en son voyage de Normandie
, 1650,
in French [Was At Bib. Lisieux, now Internet Archive].
- Le Manifeste de la Noblesse de Normandie
par lequel elle declare reconnaitre son Altesse Royale
pour Lieutenant General pour le Roy et se joint aux Princes et aux Parlements pour
mettre en execution les declarations et arret donnes contre le Cardinal Mazarin,1652,
in French [Was At Bib. Lisieux, now Internet Archive]
- Effects of Absolutism on Trade and Empire
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French Culture of
the 16th and 17th Centuries
- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592):
On Cannibals
, 1580, short exceprts [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592):
On the Cannibals
, trans by
Ian Johnston, full text, [At Johns Texts] [Internet Archive version
here
]
- Wikipedia:
Michel de Montaigne
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662):
Pensees
(Thoughts),
1660 [At this Site]
-
Letters Patent Establishing the
French Academy
, 1635, excerpts [At Hanover]
-
Francois Rabelais (1494-1593):
Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and Pantagruel
, [At Project Gutenberg]
- Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680):
Memoirs
[At this Site]
On court intrigues under Louis XIII, Richelieu's Death, Mazarin, and the Fronde.
- Madame de Sevigne (1626-1696:
Selected Letters
[At this Site]
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