Found insideFrance emerged as a major European power in the Late Middle Ages, ... power and absolute French dominance in Europe, foreshadowing the reign of Louis XIV. Found inside – Page 186system under Kangxi had already reached a highly mature stage of its long development in centralization of state power, whereas France under Louis XIV was ... Found inside – Page 591Unlike in England, there was in France no single institutional focus for resistance to royal power. A strong-willed and able ruler, such as Louis XIV proved to be, could eclipse challenges to royal power, particularly when he satisfied ... He did not invent any new bureaucratic devices but rather used existing ranks of officials in new ways that increased government efficiency and the centralization of control. Found inside – Page 175Absolutism, whether in Spain or France, has often been seen as an inhospitable ... political centralisation sought under Louis XIV in the epoch of Colbert, ... Found inside – Page 451But the centralizing states were not always able to control the forces they had unleashed . ... Henry IV had curbed the power of the provincial estates and established government monopolies over mining and the ... FRANCE UNDER Louis XIV Of all the absolute monarchs , none stamped his age as decisively as Louis XIV ... Found inside – Page 29... constitutional law of the State, King of the French'. Louis XIV might be heard ... Gone too was the centralisation of power, which had been articulated ... Found inside – Page 155The absolutism of Louis XIV and the interventionist economic policy of his minister Colbert strengthened the French tendency toward centralization. Found inside – Page 20... of the political power of a ruling elite around the court of Louis XIV ... the centralised financial system at the heart of the modem French economy. Found inside – Page 156It was sealed in the Peace of Westphalia (1648), which made France and Sweden co-guarantors of the German peace and tamed Habsburg and Imperial power within ... Found inside – Page 121France is governed by a strong centralised administration. The separation of power also has historical roots; after the king Louis XIV (“l'état c'est moi“, ... Found inside – Page 156The fully developed French Baroque style , Louis XIV , reached its culmination around 1700 . ... the establishment of workshops , support for industries and , through this , the centralization of the arts under the protection of the crown ; foreign influences through the ... His goal was to establish absolute royal power in France . Found inside – Page 90The reign of Louis XIV marked the high point in espoused the Protestant or Huguenot cause and those that the prestige of the French monarchy . ... world , and French fashions and manners supporting it abroad as a counterpoise to Habsburg power . set the standard for all Europe . ... and such completed Mazarin ' s work of domestic centralization and moderate republican groups as the Girondins . French Legends: The Life and Legacy of King Louis XIV looks at the life and reign of one of history's most famous Kings, explaining his influence in a historical light and analyzing the monumental legacy he left behind. Found inside – Page 615France. After. Louis. XIV. Although France provided a model for absolutism, even under the Sun King centralization of power was never complete. Until the era of revolutions, the French aristocracy remained a strong group in the state that ... Found inside – Page 297France, the three principal direct taxes of the Ancien Régime, ... he introduced was as highly centralised as Louis XIV's had been.12 Paris was the source ... Found inside – Page ixcentralised power of Louis XIV and Louis XV, the États généraux had effectively fallen into disuse; it had not met for 175 years, the previous time having ... Found inside – Page 6... of Louis XIV, long a model of the centralising power of the ruler, ... more room for elite corporations so important for the regional fabric of France, ... Found inside – Page 47Though the nobility never regained anything close to the feudal power it had once possessed , it was able , with the help ... Had the nobility and the church been forced to pay taxes , had administrative centralization proceeded in the same direction as under Louis XIV , and had important positions in the ... Perhaps the dismal results and ruin brought to France by Louis XIV weakened the king ' s authority . Found inside – Page 85... the purpose of expanding power for individual states.23 Louis XIV , known as the Sun King , reinforced the internal side of French sovereignty by centralizing authority at his court in Versailles and forcing French nobles to reside there . Found inside – Page 107Too much has been made, particularly by French historians, of the notion of a shift to a bureaucratic monarchy by 1715. Administrative centralisation has ... Found inside – Page 50abroad was Louis XIV's grand design . Both Henry IV and Louis XIV sought to consolidate their own authority and to centralize power with one aim in mind , to make France the center of Europe , with ... If Louis is best - known for his remark " I am the state , " there were good reasons for his seeking a centralization of power . Found inside – Page 18The second stage of the Fronde developed when Louis XIV liked jewels to be incorporated in the the other members of the ... They resented the centralization Mazarin started taking him to meetings of the council which had been going on since Henri IV ... Condé's troops wore straw in their hats , and the Grand Equerry of France the Comte d'Harcourt in Mazarins paper . ... uncles and cousins , magistrates had paid a high price for their positions . a Parlement trying to grab more power . Found inside – Page 230In spite of Louis XIV's highly centralised grandeur there existed in France a considerable element of provincial self - government and even independence . Richelieu had complained that in France every village is a centre of power ' . Found inside – Page 116The reforms of Colbert, the chief Minister of Louis XIV, had greatly strengthened the power and wealth of France, and English ... They saw the steady building up of French colonial and commercial enterprise, backed by the centralised power of ... Found inside – Page 264Finally , Louis XIV also had difficulty with the most volatile issue of seventeenth - century Europe – religious dissent . ... While Louis XIV increasingly insisted on the autonomous power of the throne in France , the Parliament in England finally achieved a ... Moreover , the centralization of power in the king and the court paralleled the increasing institutionalization of the arts under Louis XIV , as a means of ... This book challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened assemblies of landowners in the late 1770s and 1780s to discuss policies needed to resolve the budgetary crisis, he faced widespread opposition from lords and office ... Found inside – Page 110French involvement in the Thirty Years War meant that the King and ... Power and Faction in Louis XIV's France ( Oxford : Basil Blackwell , 1988 ) . Found inside – Page 159His overardent nationalism , however , brought disruption rather than centralization ; and in 1567 the Dutch , led by William ... by the time of the suppression of the Fronde in 1651 , the feudal system as a dominating political power in France had passed away . ... by Louis XIV , in whose reign France reached not only the height of her dynastic centralization , but attained to the cultural primacy of Europe . Found inside – Page 3931905 ) ; Ernest Lavisse , “ Louis XIV , 1643 – 1685 , " cline of the French power . The looseness ... When Louis was 15 centralization of government at home were his years of age , he married Maria Leszczynska , main ambitions . Although he ... Found inside – Page 92A royal edict was sufficient to suppress what remained in France of the ancient municipal liberties . ... came about was not because the privileged classes had too much centralised power but because they had none at all . 92 Louis XIV . Found inside – Page 131Colbert found a temporary solution to this problem by persuading Louis XIV to confer the title of Admiral of France ... This administrative dualism , with the possibilities it provided for inefficiency and corruption , thus survived Colbert ' s centralizing reforms and was to ... 1661 Colbert mapped out an ambitious program for developing French maritime power that went far beyond Richelieu ' s original design . Found inside – Page 189Images of the Sun King Beyond France, 1661-1715 Tony Claydon, Charles-Édouard Levillain. tendencies towards a centralisation of power in Dutch political ... In order to try to break free of such parochial strictures, this volume builds upon the approach of scholars such as Ragnhild Hatton who have attempted to situate Louis’ legacy within broader, pan-European context. Found inside – Page 372It is evident that governmental guarded and its power of concentration will be as great as centralization acquires immense power when it is combined it can be . ... France Ch . Dunoyer , in his De la liberté du travail : The apolowitnessed the greatest governmental centralization imagi- | gists of the ... And yet , under Louis XIV . there was much less eral and a more equal development , a more complete and ... One of the main contentions of this work is that the failure of both monarchical and Revolutionary regimes to deal with the massive social problem of poverty played a far larger part in explaining the collapse of the Bourbons in 1789, and ... Found inside – Page 97It is only in France that everything which can be centralised at all has been centralised in one city . It is often said that Paris is ... everything radiates . Even France had to fight for its unity , which was the culmination of a process of development completed under Louis XIV . In his time all power was in the hands of the King ; from rivals the nobles had been turned into courtiers and subjects , retaining only ... Found inside – Page 25This book asks , how did urbanization and the growth of cities and towns change political life in France ? ... Antoine helped initiate a march to Versailles in October 1789 , to bring Louis XVI and the royal family to Paris , the government of France left Paris only twice for any length ... 18 De Tocqueville had insisted that this extraordinary centralization of power Images of the nineteenth - century French city 25. Found inside – Page 112Germany has — with its post - 1945 determination never to let power again sit in the palm of one hand - given much power ... France , famously centralised since Louis XIV ' s reign ( 1643 – 1715 ) , has also usefully loosened its Parisian bonds ... Found inside – Page 72The growth of the centralizing power of France , under Louis XIV , tended , no doubt , to create the desire for something like it in the English colonial system . Hence the attempts at a coercive control under James II . By 1750 all but three or four ... Found inside – Page 69With the help of his premier ministre Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIII worked to consolidate and centralise the power of the Bourbon dynasty; Louis XIV ... Found inside – Page 753... century the French monarchy was the standard example of centralised power both ... how despotic the France of Louis XIV and his successors actually was. Found inside – Page 10We will be concerned chiefly with two Bourbon kings : Louis XIV , who epitomized the tradition of absolute monarchy ; and ... upon recovering their regional power , which they had lost early in the century to the centralizing policies of Louis XIII ... Louis XIV, by John Abbott, is a classic French history text detaling the life of King Louis XIV. Louis encouraged and benefited from the work of prominent political, military, and cultural figures such as Mazarin, Colbert, Louvois, the Grand Condé, Turenne, and Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, as well as André Charles Boulle, ... Found inside – Page 13He wanted to show that the French Revolution was not responsible for the centralisation of the state since it had already been centralised by Louis XIV. French Legends: The Life and Legacy of King Louis XIV looks at the life and reign of one of history's most famous Kings, explaining his influence in a historical light and analyzing the monumental legacy he left behind. Found inside – Page 442England too was drawn into the conflict, fearing a combined French-Spanish power. The War of the Spanish ... The war effort had effectively bankrupted the French, and Louis XIV, his sun well and truly set, died in 1 71 5. THE FRENCH ... 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