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Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Arthur Augustus Tilley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0874713811
Author : Laurence Bradford Packard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : France
ISBN : OCLC:727999540
Author : Guy Rowlands
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191636943
The financial humbling of a great power in any age demands explanation. In the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14) Louis XIV's France had to fight way beyond its borders and the costs of war rose to unprecedented heights. With royal income falling as economic activity slowed down, the widening gap between revenue and expenditure led the government into a series of desperate expedients. Ever-larger quantities of credit, often obtained through fairly novel and poorly-understood financial instruments, were combined with ill-advised monetary manipulations. Moreover, through poor ministerial management the system of earmarking revenues for spending descended into chaos. All this forced up the cost of loans, foreign exchange, and military logistics as government contractors and bankers built the mounting risks into the price of their contracts and sought to profit from the situation. There was already a problem with controlling royal contractors, who ran the entire financial machinery, but this only grew worse, not least because the government further indemnified and bailed out men deemed too essential to fail. In some cases entrepreneurs even managed to penetrate the corridors of the ministries, either as heads of royal agencies or even as junior ministers. This added up to nothing less than an early military-industrial complex. As state debt climbed to astronomical levels and financial instruments collapsed in value France's chances of remaining the superpower of the age shrank. The military decline of a great power often goes hand-in-hand with its financial decline, but rarely so dramatically as in early eighteenth-century France.
Author : Arthur Augustus Tilley
Publisher : New York : Barnes & Noble
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : French literature
ISBN : UOM:39015019218612
Author : Philip Mansel
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780241960592
Winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize 2019 'The ultimate biography of the Sun King' Simon Sebag Montefiore Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and Germany, and established colonies overseas. The stupendous palace he built at Versailles became the envy of monarchs all over Europe. In his palaces, Louis encouraged dancing, hunting, music and gambling. He loved conversation, especially with women: the power of women in Louis's life and reign is a particular theme of this book. Louis was obsessed by the details of government but the cost of building palaces and waging continuous wars devastated the country's finances and helped set it on the path to revolution. Nevertheless, by his death, he had helped make his grandson king of Spain, where his descendants still reign, and France had taken essentially the shape it has today. King of the World is the most comprehensive and up-to-date biography of this hypnotic, flawed figure in English. It draws on all the latest research to paint a convincing and compelling portrait of a man who, three hundred years after his death, still epitomises the idea of le grand monarque.
Author : Laurence Bradford Packard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1041333646
Author : Albert N. Hamscher
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0871697726
This vol., while encompassing the entire reign of Louis XIV & all the parlements of the realm, has the narrow focus of investigating the impact of royal policy on the judicial authority of the parlements as revealed in their relations with the king's councils, notably the one that specialized in judicial affairs, the Conseil Prive. This is above all a study of the evolution of conciliar jurisprudence & judicial procedure, as much an exercise in what the French call "l'histoire du droit" as an opportunity to observe in a novel way the resolution of some of the most pressing political problems in the Age of Louis XIV. But the overall aim is to understand the practical consequences of royal absolutism for the kingdom's highest judicial institutions.
Author : Voltaire,R Griffith
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015932312
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Kathryn Norberg,Sandra Rosenbaum
Publisher : Costume Society of America
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Design
ISBN : UCSD:31822041290461
""Analyzing French fashion prints and what these images represent and reveal about the fashion and culture of the seventeenth-century."--Provided by publisher"--
Author : Thomas J. Schaeper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : France
ISBN : UOM:39015011722470
Author : Henri Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : France
ISBN : UOMDLP:aba0801:0002.001
Author : D. J. Peters
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483160818
A Short History of France comprises brief accounts of significant events in the history of France. Some of the topics discussed in this book include the origins of France; Capetians to St. Louis; Joan of Arc and the restoration of France at the end of the Middle Ages; France from Charles VIII to the rise of Catherine de' Medici; end of the Valois line and the reign of Henry IV; and Mazarin and the years of the Fronde. Louis XIV and the establishment of absolutism; Waterloo to the revolution of 1848; The Second Empire and its collapse; and events in the last 50 years in France are also described in this text. This publication is valuable to French language and literature students who wish to gain general knowledge on French history.
Author : Meredith Martin,Gillian Weiss
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606067307
This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV. Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France’s King Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715). Yet most studies of French art in this period focus on Paris and Versailles, overlooking the presence or portrayal of galley slaves on the kingdom’s coasts. By examining a wide range of artistic productions—ship design, artillery sculpture, medals, paintings, and prints—Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss uncover a vital aspect of royal representation and unsettle a standard picture of art and power in early modern France. With an abundant selection of startling images, many never before published, The Sun King at Sea emphasizes the role of esclaves turcs (enslaved Turks)—rowers who were captured or purchased from Islamic lands—in building and decorating ships and other art objects that circulated on land and by sea to glorify the Crown. Challenging the notion that human bondage vanished from continental France, this cross-disciplinary volume invites a reassessment of servitude as a visible condition, mode of representation, and symbol of sovereignty during Louis XIV’s reign.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1071279965