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absolutist monarchy
aristocratic
Aristocratic Ethic
Author_Mark Bannister
bourbon
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Chateau
Comte De Soissons
conseil
Conseil Du Roi
De Bourbon
Du Sang
early modern Europe
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ethic
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French political history
fronde
henri
Henri De Bourbon
Henri De Montmorency
heroism and ideology
Hold
ideological shifts in French aristocracy
Il Ne
La Rochefoucauld
La Terre
Le Prince
louis
Louis De Bourbon
Louis XIII
Mademoiselle
Monsieur Le Prince
Palais Royal
Persona
prince
Prince De
Prince Du Sang
Qui
rochefoucauld
sang
Seventeenth Century France
seventeenth-century rebellion
social order transformation
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781900755429
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: 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.
