Boulainvilliers and the French Monarchy
Aristocratic Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century France
Suspicious of the French monarchy, and scornful of the new elites that served it, Henri de Boulainvilliers (1658-1722) has been considered one of the Old Regime's paradigmatic aristocratic reactionaries, a founder of modern racist theory. Some scholars, however, have admired his constitutionalism and judged him a progenitor of an enlightened aristocratic liberalism now commonly held to have been a major force in shaping the ideology of the French Revolution. In a close contextual study of the writings of this enigmatic, pivotal thinker, Harold A. Ellis persuasively rethinks both images of Boulainvilliers, finding him a controversialist who in…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5017-4573-7
- EAN: 9781501745737
- Produktnummer: 32475072
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: PDF
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Harold A. Ellis
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