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Exile, Imprisonment, or Death - The Politics of Disgrace in Bourbon France, 1610-1789 (Hardcover)
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Exile, Imprisonment, or Death - The Politics of Disgrace in Bourbon France, 1610-1789 (Hardcover)
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On the accession of Louis XIII in 1610 following the assassination
of his father, the Bourbon dynasty stood on unstable foundations.
For all of Henri IV's undoubted achievements, he had left his son a
realm that was still prey to the ambitions of an aristocracy that
possessed independent military force and was prepared to resort to
violence and vendetta in order to defend its interests and honour.
To establish his personal authority, Louis XIII was forced to
resort to conspiracy and murder, and even then his authority was
constantly challenged. Yet a little over a century later, as the
reign of Louis XIV drew to a close, such disobedience was
impossible. Instead, a simple royal command expressing the
sovereign's disgrace was sufficient to compel the most powerful men
and women in the kingdom to submit to imprisonment or internal
exile without a trial or an opportunity to justify their conduct,
abandoning their normal lives, leaving families, careers, offices,
and possessions behind in obedience to their sovereign. To explain
that transformation, this volume examines the development of this
new 'politics of disgrace', why it emerged, how it was
conceptualised, the conventions that governed its use, and
reactions to it, not only from the perspective of the monarch and
his noble subjects, but also the great corporations of the realm
and the wider public. Although that new model of disgrace proved
remarkably successful, influencing the ideas and actions of the
dominant social elites, it was nevertheless contested, and the
critique of disgrace connects to the second aim of this work, which
is to use shifting attitudes to the practice as a means of
investigating the nature of Ancien Regime political culture and
some of the dramatic and profound changes it experienced in the
years separating Louis XIII's dramatic seizure of power from the
French Revolution.
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