Exile, Imprisonment, or Death
The Politics of Disgrace in Bourbon France, 1610-1789
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 August 2019
- ISBN 9780198846062
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages560 pages
- Size 234x156x26 mm
- Weight 808 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 black and white images 0
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Short description:
In 1617, Louis XIII was forced to resort to assassination as punishment, while a century later, Louis XIV needed only to issue a command and the kingdom's most powerful subjects would submit to imprisonment or exile without trial. What were 'politics of disgrace', why did it emerge, what conventions governed its use, and how did France react to it?
MoreLong description:
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 Old 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.
Julian Swann's reflective and fine study of the political culture of ancien regime France gives us different questions to aks, and more to go on.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Head of the Household: Disgrace at the Courts of Louis XIII and Louis XIV
Master and Servant: Ministerial Disgrace in the Reign of Louis XIV
'Sire, in the name of God, have pity on me': The Personal Experience of Disgrace
The Golden Age of Ministerial Exile, 1715-1774
Disgrace and Judicial Politics: How, and How Not, to Punish the Parlements
Of Secrets and Supper Parties: Disgrace at the Court of Louis XV
'The secret of knowing how to be bored': Daily Life in Disgrace
Emptying the Chamber Pot: Family and Friendship in Disgrace
'The cry of the people is the voice of God': The Popular Politics of Disgrace
Disgrace without Dishonour
From Disgrace to Despotism: Lettres de cachet, Arbitrary Punishment, and the Campaign for a Law of Public Safety
Idol of the Nation: Ministerial Disgrace in the Reign of Louis XVI
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
