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Absolute monarchy is a variation of the governmental form of monarchy in which the monarch holds supreme authority and where that authority is not restricted by any written laws, legislature, or customs. In France, Louis XIV was the most famous exemplar of absolute monarchy, with his court central to French political and cultural life during ...
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The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or...
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The fundamental laws of the Kingdom of France were a set of...
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An absolute monarchy is a form of monarchy where one person,...
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Aug 16, 2021 · All of these rare moments followed serious crises – that of the absolute monarchy in the 1780s, the reactionary turn under Charles X, the blindness of King Louis-Philippe and his main minister...
- Eric Anceau
Richelieu’s capture of La Rochelle, the most powerful Huguenot fortress and epicentre of disturbance, after a 14-month siege (1627–28) was therefore a landmark in the making of absolute monarchy, crucial for France and, because of its increasing power, for Europe as a whole.
(more) When he crowned himself emperor of France in 1804 (and ratified the act by a people’s referendum), Napoleon Bonaparte instituted a new type of monarchy—the “ nationalist monarchy,” whereby the monarch ruled on behalf of society’s nationalist aspirations and drive for independence.
