Mazarinades
Mazarinades

Author: Houghton Library

Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13:

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Science and Social Status
Science and Social Status

Author: David J. Sturdy

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780851153957

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This comprehensive survey of the members of France's Academie des Sciences to the 1750s takes up the challenge to search for a way to connect history of science with social and cultural history at the bottom (the level of the scientists) rather than at the top (the level of philosophical debate about science and culture) (T.L. Hankins, In Defence of Biography: the Use of Biography in the History of Science, in History of Science, 17 (1979), 1-16). The book focuses primarily on the academicians themselves; and although it has much to say about the Academie as an institution, it does so in the light of the changing positions which the academicians occupied in the social hierarchy of early modern France. It explores the implications of those changes for the development of the Academie down to the mid-1700s, and it argues that throughout this period the the relationship which the Academie had with the Bourbon regime, and with French society in general, was governed governed to a large extent by the personal circumstances of the academicians.

La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France
La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France

Author: Vincent Joseph Pitts

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780801864667

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Viewed through her writings, the events of Mademoiselle's life offer a unique perspective on several aspects of seventeenth-century France: the evolution of the Bourbon monarchy over the course of the century, the dynamics of aristocratic resistance to the centralizing power of the state, and the debate over the role of women in public and private life.

Judicial Politics and Urban Revolt in Seventeenth-Century France
Judicial Politics and Urban Revolt in Seventeenth-Century France

Author: Sharon Kettering

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-03-08

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1400869781

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Most historical scholarship concerned with the Fronde has investigated the Parlement of Paris. By focusing on the different experience of high court judges in Aix-en-Provence, Sharon Kettering illuminates the causes of resistance to royal authority and offers a new understanding of the role of provincial officials in seventeenth-century revolts. The author shows that political tensions and alignments within the court and provincial capital were as important in causing the revolts at Aix as the judges' relationship with the crown. Describing the liaisons and personalities that gave impetus to resistance, she traces the emergence of an opposition party within the Parlement of Aix after the first revolt in 1630. This party remained sporadically active until its dispersal by the crown in 1659, and it provided the leadership for the serious parlementary Fronde at Aix in January, 1649. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

French Official Publications
French Official Publications

Author: Gloria Westfall

Publisher: Pergamon

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13:

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Guide to and bibliography of official publications in France - comments on policy and programmes of government publishing and on bibliographic control practices. Diagram, graphs, references and statistical tables.