TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ellis,Harold A.
TI  - Boulainvilliers and the French Monarchy: Aristocratic Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century France 
SN  - 9781501745737
AV  - DC36.98.B58 E44 1988
U1  - 944/.0072024 19
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Historians
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - Monarchy
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Historiography
KW  - West European History
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / France
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Note on Translations --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Early Works: Genealogy and the Problem of French Feudalism --; 3. Boulainvilliers and the Burgundy Circle --; 4. Boulainvilliers and the Due d'Orleans: Toward the Regency --; 5. The Affaire du Bonnet ( 1715-1 716) and Boulainvilliers' Hopes --; 6. The Affaire des Princes (1716-1717) and Boulainvilliers' Failure --; 7. Conclusion --; Bibliographical Appendix: Boulainvilliers' Works on French History --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745737
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ER  -