Boulainvilliers and the French Monarchy : Aristocratic Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century France / Harold A. Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, Harold A., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boulainvilliers, Henri, comte de, 1658-1722.

Boulainvilliers, Henri.

Historians--France--Biography.

Historians.

Monarchy--France--History--18th century--Historiography.

Monarchy.

France.

West European History.

France--History--Louis XIV, 1643-1715--Historiography.

Local Subjects:

France.

West European History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 interpreted French history as a self-consciously political writer seeking to address an emergent political public.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Note on Translations

1. Introduction

2. Early Works: Genealogy and the Problem of French Feudalism

3. Boulainvilliers and the Burgundy Circle

4. Boulainvilliers and the Due d'Orleans: Toward the Regency

5. The Affaire du Bonnet ( 1715-1 716) and Boulainvilliers' Hopes

6. The Affaire des Princes (1716-1717) and Boulainvilliers' Failure

7. Conclusion

Bibliographical Appendix: Boulainvilliers' Works on French History

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781501745737

1501745735

OCLC:

1129150825