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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 Back to Index 
  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 succès de sa Majesté 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 déclare reconnaître son Altesse Royale
                    pour Lieutenant Général pour le Roy et se joint aux Princes et aux Parlements pour
                    mettre en exécution les déclarations et arrêt donnés 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         
            Back to IndexMichel 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): Penseés (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 Sévigné (1626-1696:
              Selected Letters [At this Site] 
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