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Modern History Sourcebook:
Reading Guide:
Bishop Bossuet: Defending Absolutism
[Note: Reading Guides are meant as review aids for a particular
text. They do indicate some of the questions a text raises.]
Answer the questions below.
Find your information from the sourcebook itself, or from your
textbook.
You may use other sources, but indicate what they are is this
is the basis of submitted class work.
- What position does the author of this piece hold? Who is he
writing for?
- What principles lie behind Bishop Bossuet's theory of government?
Why did would he adopt such principles?
- What alternative justifications for absolute monarchy are
given in the other assigned readings?
- From your understanding of the other readings how do you think
absolutism worked in practice?
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