Printed propaganda under Louis XIV: absolute monarchy and public opinion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976.Klaits, Joseph. Printed Propaganda Under Louis XIV: Absolute Monarchy and Public Opinion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976....
Absolute Monarchy King Louis XIV dubbed himself the Sun King because, as the central power in France, he believed that his subjects revolved around him the way the planets revolve around the sun. An absolute monarchy is one in which the king is God’s representative on Earth, giving him ab...
Known for his absolute monarchy, he presided over one of France’s most prosperous eras from his magnificent palace at Versailles. Louis expanded France’s eastern borders through conflicts with the Habsburgs and fought in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14) to secure the Spanish ...
Printed propaganda under Louis XIV: absolute monarchy and public opinion (Princeton University Press, 2015). Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. The Ancien Régime: A History of France 1610–1774 (1999), survey by leader of the Annales School ISBN 0631211969 Lewis, W. H. The Splendid Century: Life ...
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ahe turned france into an 〝absolute monarchy〞.that means the king had absolute power over rveryone .the sun king shined most of all on art and architecture .louis used versailles and his many other palaces to show off hundreds of great works of art. 他把法国变成〝专制君主制国王在艺术有...
at Versailles, September 1, 1715; was the son of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, and became king, upon the death of his father, May 14, 1643. Until 1661 the real master of France was Cardinal Jules Mazarin (q.v.), under whose government his country, victorious over Austria (1643-48...
In a context of civil and international war, Louis XVI was suspended and arrested at the time of the Insurrection of 10 August 1792; one month later, the absolute monarchy was abolished; the First French Republic was proclaimed on 21 September 1792. He was tried by the National Convention (...
ofabsolute monarchyof the classical age. Internationally, in a series of wars between 1667 and 1697, he extended France’s eastern borders at the expense of theHabsburgsand then, in theWar of the Spanish Succession(1701–14), engaged a hostile Europeancoalitionin order to secure the Spanish ...
Michel Le Tellier was the secretary of state for war (1643–77) and then chancellor who created the royal army that enabled King Louis XIV to impose his absolute rule on France and establish French hegemony in Europe. The son of a Parisian magistrate, Le