Michel Le Tellier
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3 days ago · France - Absolutism, Louis XIV, Monarchy: Thus, in religious matters (except where Jansenism was concerned), in his dealings with the nobility and the Parlement, in his attitude toward the economy, and in his manner of governing the country, Louis revealed a desire to exercise a paternal control of affairs that might suggest a modern dictator ...
1 day ago · The film, The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966), directed by Roberto Rossellini, shows Louis's rise to power after the death of Cardinal Mazarin.
1 day ago · France - Monarchy, Revolution, Culture: Throughout his long reign Louis XIV (1643–1715) never lost the hold over his people he had assumed at the beginning. He worked hard to project his authority in the splendid setting of Versailles and to depict it in his arrogant motto “Nec pluribus impar” (“None his equal”) and in his sun emblem.
1 day ago · France - Foreign Policy, Financial Crisis: The 18th-century French monarchy lacked both the ambition and the means to pursue a foreign policy as far-reaching as that of Louis XIV.
4 days ago · Hyacinthe Rigaud’s “Portrait of Louis XIV” serves as an idyllic artistic illustration of the mechanisms of Absolutism which Louis XIV established in France. The monarch, who was well into his sixties during the time of this portrait, is depicted in the classic style of an Absolutist ruler.
12 hours ago · This chapter discusses forms of resistance, protest and popular political action in the Crown of Castile at the end of the Middle Ages, taking as a reference two specific scenarios: the first concerns the activity of the urban sectors and the second, the way in which the rural world opposed the violence of the powerful and sought, by different m...
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6 days ago · POOR: Louis XIV was a strong king who broke the power of the French nobility. WHY: The above-stated thesis contains a vague judgment about Louis XIV; that he was “strong.” In addition, it fails to specify exactly how he broke the nobles’ power.
