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 "constitut...

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Main Author: Ellis, Harold A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2019]
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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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages)
ISBN:9781501745737
DOI:10.7591/9781501745737

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