1st Edition
Conde in Context Ideological Change in Seventeeth-century France
By Mark Bannister
Copyright 2000
254 Pages
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Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
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Louis II de Bourbon (1621-86), known as Le Grand Conde, stood alongside Richelieu and Mazarin as one of the key figures who shaped the reign of Louis XIV. In response to profound upheavals in their world, his contemporaries looked to him to satisfy their need for a hero. Originally the warrior-hero par excellence, Conde was redefined by successive generations as the ideal subject of the absolutist... Read more
Introduction; I: The Old Order; 1: A Need for Heroes; 2: The ‘Natural’ Order of the State; 3: Freedom and Social Order; II: The Fronde: A Seismic Shift; 4: Confrontation; 5: Political Alternatives; 6: Rebellion; III: Towards a New Order; 7: Absolutism Imposed; 8: Heroism Refined; 9: Heterodoxy Neutralized; Conclusion
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Mark Bannister
