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War and Diplomacy in the Age of Louis XIV: A Historical Study and Annotated Bibliography Volume II
… relations and military affairs during the era of Louis XIV. However, there exists no up-to-date annotated bibliography listing and describing these works or older, but valuable studies. The latest annotated bibliography to appear regarding early modern history is Hugh Dunthorne and Hamish M. …
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Aux frontières de l'au-delà: les attitudes devant la mort à Poitiers sous le règne de Louis XIV
L'analyse des données retrouvées dans nos testaments poitevins a été effectuée à la fois en s'inspirant de la fiche élaborée par Etienne Richer et en suivant la logique interne du document. Par conséquent, le premier chapitre débutera par une description externe et interne du testament type de …
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Coexister entre papistes et religionnaires : Castres entre la paix d’Alès (1629) et le début du règne personnel de Louis XIV (1661).
La thèse étudie les modalités de coexistence entre les deux dénominations religieuses présentes dans la ville de Castres, située dans l’ancienne province du Haut-Languedoc. L’étude démontre que les conditions d’existence des réformés français se sont généralement stabilisées au cours de la période …
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The solo string works of J. S. Bach: the relationship between dance and musical elements
… Genoa made a visit to the French court and asked Louis XIV to host a ball. Louis XIV responded affirmatively and arranged a magnificent dance in his private apartment. The type of dance that took place was a kind of social dancing which later became the standard included Allemande, Courante, …
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Coercion, Conversion and Counterinsurgency in Louis XIV's France
… of armed coercion during the reign of Louis XIV. It examines the coercive aspects of tax collection and the Crown's military response to fiscal revolts, and the enforcement of Louis XIV's religious policies, focusing on the dragonnades of the 1680s and the counterinsurgency campaign …
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The Te Deum settings of Marc-Antoine Charpentier
During the time of the absolutist monarchy of Louis XIV (1643-1715), the musical genre of the Latin Te Deum setting held an important position in France. The four extant Te Deums of Marc-Antoine Charpentier represent some of the finest offerings to this genre from one of France's truly significant …
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A Mediterranean Connection: French Ambassadors, the Republic of Venice, and the Construction of the Louisquatorzien State, 1662-1702
<p>Abstract</p> <p> Historians of Louis XIV’s reign have debated evolutions in the king’s administration. Such studies, despite heterogenous conclusions, better define our understanding of absolutist authority in the ancien régime as manifested through a process of so-called bureaucratic …
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Figures du Monarque et imaginaire tyrannique chez La Fontaine
… afin de condamner les vices de la cour de Louis XIV. Cette thèse se donne pour objectif principal la saisie de la conception du pouvoir monarchique à travers la figure du Monarque et l’imaginaire tyrannique dans la fable « Les Compagnons d’Ulysse » et autres. Pour ce faire nous appréhendons …
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Frederick the Great and the Meanings of War, 1730-1755
… and reflected the towering influence of King Louis XIV, with Frederick following the flamboyant masculinity of the French baroque court. Frederick was a backward-looking military thinker, who situated his war-making in two temporal envelopes: broadly in the long eighteenth century (1648-1789), …
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Les héros qui ne vieillissent jamais : Le secret du succès continu des romans de cape et d'épée
… souvent ancrées dans le contexte des règnes de Louis XIII et Louis XIV. À travers l'analyse d'œuvres d'Alexandre Dumas, Paul Féval et Michel Zévaco, ce mémoire explore les ressorts du succès de ces romans : la richesse du cadre historique, la tension entre pouvoir et argent, l'importance de …
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Style in Bossuet's 1662 Lenten Sermons: A Method of Rhetorical Analysis
… Delivered during Lent before the court of Louis XIV, the sermons provide an especially rich case study for examining the argumentative potential of figures. The frequent use of devices, such as antithesis, vivid description, dialogismus, figures of indirection, and periodic structure, far …
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Religion and the French Constitution of 1791
… by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Louis XIV. proclaimed that the state acknowledged the public exercise of her worship alone.
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"Loing du Soleil" : architectural practice in Quebec City during the French regime
… its impact within the city fabric as well as by Louis XIV by means of city views that were regularly sent to France. The second part of my dissertation presents the careers of the architects Claude Baillif, Hilaire Bernard de La Riviere, Joseph Maillou, and Jean-Baptiste Maillou. All were master …
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Motifs, l'art et les moyens, Les: la reussite des contes de fee de Perrault et des freres Grimm
… French nobility toward the absolutist regime of Louis XIV and of the German populace toward the French occupation of Germany by Napoleon I. Third, this study looks at the methods of distribution that facilitated the dissemination of the Perrault and the Grimm brothers fairy tales to a large …
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From Irish Wig Rebel to Bourbon Diplomat: The Life and Career of Nathaniel Hooke (1664-1738)
… read by de Torcy to the Conseil dâ��en haut of Louis XIV. Hooke was thus a significant figure in the formulation and implementation of French foreign policy. Examining Hooke's career highlights the importance of reassessing Irish history from a European perspective and casts light on the broader …
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Female Equestrian Culture in France, 1600-1715
… in France between 1600 and the end of Louis XIV’s reign in 1715. The introduction situates the study of female horseback riding within the scholarship on early modern women’s sport, elite femininity and corporeal culture in seventeenth-century France. It also positions the analysis of …
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Regards sur l’Être et le Paraitre dans Trois Portraits du XVIIe Siècle
… words. Charles Le Brun, painter of the Court of Louis XIV, stated that the face is not the mirror of the soul but the readable expression of passions. This study examines literary and artistic representations of three representative individuals: Mademoiselle de Montpensier, the Duc de La …
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The consort suite in the German-speaking lands (1660-1705)
… brought lasting peace to Germany: in France, Louis XIV had territorial ambitions, and this brought him into conflict with Leopold I, the Holy Roman Emperor. Despite the political machinations of the period, French cultural influence was very strong in Germany. The music of Jean-Baptiste Lully …
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