1st Edition

The Third Reign of Louis XIV, c.1682-1715

Edited By Julia Prest, Guy Rowlands Copyright 2017
244 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The personal rule of Louis XIV, following on from a long period of royal minority and apprenticeship, lasted 54 years from 1661 to 1715. But the second half of this personal rule has, until recently, received significantly less scholarly attention than the 1660s and 1670s. This has obscured some of the very real changes and developments that occurred between the early 1680s and the mid-1690s, by... Read more

Introduction

[Guy Rowlands and Julia Prest]

1. The Ministers of the Third Reign

[Emmanuel Pénicaut]

2. Royal Finances in the Third Reign of Louis XIV

[Guy Rowlands]

3. Crisis and Survival: Provincial Government During the Third Reign

[Darryl Dee]

4. Naval Policy in an Age of Fiscal Overextension

[Benjamin Darnell]

5. Reluctant Expansionists: Louis XIV, the Ministers of Colonies and the Founding of Détroit

[Sara E. Chapman]

6. Mercantilism, Corporate Organization and the Guilds in the Later Reign of Louis XIV

[Clare Haru Crowston]

7. Social Problems, Social Policies and the Economy in the Later Reign

[Robin Briggs]

8. Rebellion and Coexistence: Protestants in the Third Reign of Louis XIV

[W. Gregory Monahan]

9. The Catholic Church and its Dissenters, 1685–1715

[Mark Bryant]

10. The Politics of Opera Under Louis XIV: Dissident Descendants in the Third Reign

[Julia Prest]

11. Literature and Intellectual Life

[Michael Moriarty]

12. "Childhood All Around": Architecture and the Fine Arts at the End of the Reign of Louis XIV

[Thierry Sarmant]

Biography

Julia Prest is Reader in Early-Modern French at the University of St Andrews.

Guy Rowlands is Professor of History at the University of St Andrews.