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Conde in Context - Ideological Change in Seventeeth-century France (Paperback)
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Conde in Context - Ideological Change in Seventeeth-century France (Paperback)
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Louis II de Bourbon (1621-86), known as Le Grand Conde, stood
alongside Richelieu and Mazarin as one of the key figures who
shaped the reign of Louis XIV. In response to profound upheavals in
their world, his contemporaries looked to him to satisfy their need
for a hero. Originally the warrior-hero par excellence, Conde was
redefined by successive generations as the ideal subject of the
absolutist state, as the epitome of civilized behaviour and,
finally, as the exemplar of the triumph of faith over reason. In
this first detailed study in English of Le Grand Conde's
significance for his contemporaries, Mark Bannister reveals the
complexity of the ideological patterns forming and reforming in
seventeenth-century France, and the perennial need to believe in
the existence of an iconic figure, incarnating new values as they
emerge.
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