Introduction to the Series
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Map: France in 1620
Introduction
PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND
1. EARLY BOURBON MONARCHY
The ‘Peace’ Of Nantes
The Recovery Of Royal Authority
The Early Reign Of Louis XIII
PART TWO: ANALYSIS
2. RELIGION
The Catholic Reformation
The Cardinal Ministers
The Huguenots
Jansenism
3. WAR
Early Aims and Ambitions
France in the Thirty Years' War, 1635-48
Mazarin and the Peace Of The Pyrenees, 1648-59
4. GOVERNMENT
Popular Rebellion
Money
Officers of the Crown
Fronde of the Parlement, 1648-49
Personal Government
5. SOCIAL ORDER
The Fronde of the Nobles, 1650-53
Louis XIII and the Nobility
Historians and the Nobility
The Dynastic State
PART THREE: ASSESSMENT
6. THE ORIGINS OF FRENCH ABSOLUTISM?
The Fouquet-Colbert Rivalry
The End Of Government By First Minister?
The Golden Years, 1559-61
PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS
Who’s Who
Further Reading
References
Glossary
Index
Biography
Alan James is a lecturer in the Laughton Naval History Unit of the Department of War Studies, King's College London. His is author of The Navy and Government in Early Modern France, 1572-1661 (Boydell, 2004) for which he was awarded the prize of 'Best Young Academic Author of the Year' by the college.
