Review. The Role of Money in French Comedy during the Reign of Louis XIV. Forkey, L. O.

1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 366-367
Author(s):  
J. LOUGH
Keyword(s):  
Louis Xiv ◽  
French Comedy

The Role of Money in French Comedy during the Reign of Louis XIV

1950 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 553
Author(s):  
J. Marks ◽  
Leo Orville Forkey
Keyword(s):  
Louis Xiv ◽  
French Comedy

Blurring the Boundaries: Integrating Techniques of Land Surveying on the Qing’s Mongolian Frontier

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46
Author(s):  
Mario Cams
Keyword(s):  
Precise Measurement ◽  
Spatial Dynamics ◽  
Basic Unit ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
Land Surveying ◽  
New Frontier ◽  
Unit Of Length ◽  
Jesuit Missionaries ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

This article focuses on the role of spatial dynamics in effectuating the integration of two different sets of land surveying techniques. During the later stages of the Qing-Zunghar wars of the 1690s, the Kangxi emperor (r. 1661-1722) repeatedly asked French Jesuit missionaries, who had been sent to China in 1685 under the patronage of the French King Louis XIV, to join his imperial campaigns targeting the Khalkha-Mongolian borderlands. In the shadow of these imperial journeys, missionaries systematically determined latitudes with Paris-made instruments while Qing officials measured road distances all along the way with graduated ropes. A next step in the evolution of imperial cartographic practice came after the Qing- Zunghar wars had come to an end, when an all-out effort was launched by the emperor to integrate the newly conquered Khalkha Mongols and their lands into the Qing polity. As part of the effort, missionaries were asked to produce a map of the new frontier by integrating European and East Asian practices, which led to the discovery of a technical incompatibility. In 1702, the problem was solved by the precise measurement of the terrestrial degree and, immediately after, the restandardization of the Qing’s most basic unit of length, the chi 尺. Thus, I argue that the turn of the eighteenth century saw the crystallization of a new or hybrid Qing cartographic practice, driven by the need to explore the new Khalkha frontier. More concretely, I show how selected techniques as developed by the French Academy of Sciences were gradually absorbed into a pre-existing framework of Qing land surveying, a process that was shaped and facilitated by exchanges in via throughout the vast Mongolian frontier.

scholarly journals MARIE GIGAULT DE BELLEFONDS, AMBASSADRESS OF FRANCE. GENDER, POWER AND DIPLOMACY AT THE COURT OF CHARLES II OF SPAIN, 1679-1681

2020 ◽  
pp. 7-30
Author(s):  
Ezequiel Borgognoni
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
System A ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
Charles Ii

In this article, I will analyse the political activity of marquise Marie Gigault de Bellefonds, ambassadress of France at the Madrid court between 1679 and 1681, by reflecting on the different diplomatic strategies implemented by her and her husband in order to gain the favour of the monarchs, particularly of the queen consort Marie-Louise of Orleans. The study of Louis XIV of France’s instructions to his ambassador and the perusal of the letters that the ambassadress sent to her friends in Paris evidence the importance of collaborative work in the marriages among diplomats in seventeenth-century court society. Moreover, our sources allow us to make visible the role of the wives of ambassadors in the pre-modern diplomatic system –a field of study in its beginning stages, but also highly promising. Who was Marie Gigault de Bellefonds? Why was she considered a dangerous individual or, as stated by Saint-Simon, «evil as a snake» at the court? Who were her main adversaries in Madrid? What was she accused of? Why did she and her husband have to leave the embassy in 1681? This research will attempt to answer these and other questions related to the presence of the French ambassadress at the court of Charles II and Marie-Louise of Orleans.

scholarly journals The colbertism in the comedies of Molière

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 71-90
Author(s):  
Boštjan Marko Turk
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
Decisive Influence

The article deals with the role of the bourgeois in the great comedies of J. B. Molière. It shows the artist’s dichotomy regarding the class which was – in the time of Louis XIV – getting the decisive influence over the “state affairs”. The article tries to find the answer why.

EUROCENTRISM AS A SOURCE OF YURIY KOSACH’S OUTLOOK

2019 ◽  
pp. 297-303
Author(s):  
Rostyslav Radyshevsky
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
Political Ground ◽  
State Existence

The article «Eurocentrism as the source of Y. Kosach’s outlook» investigates the problem of Occident and Ori- ent in Y. Kosach’s literary-critical legacy. The concepts of «Europe» and «West» in the writer’s apprehension are considered in details. The conceptualization of epochs and historical figures in the context of culture, politics and history is traced. The main attention is paid to the problem of the affinity of Ukrainian and Western European cultures, the basis of which is the common feature – the synthesis of experiment and tradition, what matches Ukrainian nation as a European nation with the millennial state past. The problem of eternal connection of Ukraine with the West’s tradition is seen as the main axis around which Kosach concentrated all other problems. At the same time, attention is also focused on the unifying features of the Ukrainian writ- ers’ style, which Kosach distinguishes for analysis, meaning not the «form of content», but the «style of content». Similarly, in the close connection with the problem of the occidentality of Ukrainian culture, the problem of the «Ukrainian mission of the defense of Western Civilization» and the painful problems connected not only with Ukrainian history but also with the Ukrainian character, the Ukrainian way of thinking are considered. The author emphasizes that as a result of a poetic research, the artist created the myth-poetic conception of Ukrainian state existence, imagining Ukraine as «Imperium Ucrainum», «Third Rome», convinced that empires do not die, continuing to live in myths, capturing the thoughts of contemporaries, becoming a ground on which the former might and glory of the state are reviving. Аccording to Kosach, just writers perform the function of development and dissemination of national myths in society – repeatedly in the history of mankind the works of literature played the role of a vector of direction of public tastes. Thus, «Aeneid» by Virgil became the cornerstone of the imperial ideological concept by Octavian Augustus, and «An- dromaque» by Racine led the political ground for the legitimate rule of Louis XIV from the rulers of Troy. Much attention is paid to Kosach’s criticism of «Polish mythology» by A. Mickiewicz and H. Sienkievicz; dependence between «Polish mythology» and creation of own Kosach’s mythology is established in the literary essay «On the guard of the nation». The article emphasizes the relevance and far-sightedness of Y. Kosach’s views through the conception of such an old-new concept as «information warfare».

The King’s Mortars. Peculiarities of Development of the Siege Artillery Corpsin France within the Period of Louis XIV's Reign

2020 ◽  
pp. 156-167
Author(s):  
Vladimir Ovchinnikov
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
Xvii Century ◽  
Military Revolution ◽  
The Military ◽  
Organizational Problems

The study is based on the works of major European researchers and artillery practitioners like L. Saint-Rémy and Sébastien de Vauban in the second half of the XVII century. The article deals with the main aspects of the development of siege artillery in France during the reign of King Louis XIV as the main factors of the military art transformation in the era of «military revolution in Europe» in the context of the European absolutism formation, it demonstrates the crucial role of the conflict that is manifested in the phenomenon of an arms race. The author primarily focuses on the problem of using high trajectory weapons such as mortars, as well as their use and the possibilities of modernization. Attention is also paid to the organizational problems including the formation of the French corps of siege artillery with reference to the «fortification and artillery revolution» in Europe.

Le Ballet de l'Opéra: Trois Siècles de Suprématie Depuis Louis XIV

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuelle Delattre-Destemberg ◽  
Marie Glon ◽  
Vannina Olivesi
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Scholarly Publication ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
Cultural Institution ◽  
The Past ◽  
Paris Opera ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Future ◽  
Do So

As authors who contributed to an edited volume, we were startled to learn that editors added a subtitle that broadly declared French balletic supremacy. This text, entitledThe Opera Ballet: Three Centuries of Supremacy Beginning with Louis XIV[Le Ballet de l'Opéra: Trois siècles de suprématie depuis Louis XIV] (Auclair and Ghristi 2013), presents the notion of “supremacy” as a seductive value, and it is disturbing, to say the least. It is first and foremost a false assertion. The editors cannot seriously suppose that the Paris Opera Ballet, during the course of three centuries, occupied a position of dominance; and such a notion requires, in any case, detailed discussion establishing the criteria that are considered to define and delimit said domination. Such a title participates in a type of competition better identified with nation states, capitals, or European theaters after the seventeenth century. To suggest that the Paris Opera Ballet has always existed as a place of cultural “supremacy” is first of all to ignore the question ofmétissage, and to overlook how the institution adopted exogenous knowledge andsavoir-faire; it is a rejection of dance history that occurred elsewhere, entirely separate or sometimes in opposition to the productions of this single cultural institution. Most disturbing of all is the highlighting of the notion of “supremacy,” or a superiority and power over others. By valuing the notion of domination, the editors encourage readers to envision dance and the broader world in terms of inferiority and superiority (between classes, genders, nations, and cultures). The Paris Opera Ballet may have acted in the service of such an ideology in the past, and may do so again in the future; however, the role of a scholarly publication should be toanalyzediscourses of propaganda, not to reproduce them.

Master and Servant

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Swann
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
Subsequent Trial ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Governmental System ◽  
The Revolution

In the summer of 1661, Nicolas Fouquet the charismatic surintendant des finances appointed by the recently deceased cardinal Mazarin was arrested on the orders of the young Louis XIV. His subsequent trial and imprisonment was a crucial turning point in the history of the monarchy. It marked the end of the era of minister-favourites and the establishment of a new governmental system in which the king acted as the point of focus for a personal monarchy, aided and abetted by the secretaries of state. This chapter examines that transition, and the relationship between the royal master and his ministerial servants, and explores the role of disgrace in the functioning of a political system that would endure in many of its defining features until the eve of the Revolution.

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