Rise of Absolute Monarchy in France:
I. Rise of Absolutism
a. From approximately 1600-1650 what was going on in France?
b. Do you remember how well the Monarchy was able to control the situation?
c. How did Henry IV contribute to the rise of Absolutism?
d. How did Richelieu and Mazarin help Louis XIV rule with absolute authority?
e. How would Richelieu limit the newly gained political rights/privileges of
protestants?
f. How do you believe the French nobles would react to power being taken away
from them and centralized under the Monarchy?
g. What lessons would Louis XIV learn from the Fronde?
II. Years of Personal Rule
a. Louis XIV would rule France with no ______________________.
b. Why would Louis XIV want no chief minister?
c. How did Louis XIV rule?
d. How did he choose the advisors?
e. Louis XIV made sure that ________ power was never limited at the ____ level.
f. Why would Louis XIV not limit nobles’ local authority?
III. Versailles
a. How did Louis XIV use propaganda and money to reaffirm his authority?
b. The main image of the monarchies riches and power was the ______________
c. How did Louis XIV use Versailles to control the nobility?
d. What was life like at Versailles?
e. Did all nobles live at Versailles?
f. How did Versailles help Louis XIV politically?
IV. King by Divine Right
a. Where did Louis XIV’s ideas of Divine right come from?
b. What historical evidence did Bousset use to justify divine right?
c. How did this concept of Divine Right affect the King’s power?
d. Was Louis XIV a tyrant like 19th and 20th century rulers?
e. Where would one likely see him exert his authority?
f. Underneath absolutism did local institutions, controlled by nobles and
townspeople lose their authority underneath absolutism?
g. How long would this political arrangement last?
V. Louis’s Early Wars
a. By the late 1660’s ____________ was greater than any other European nation.
b. Due to the __________ policies of _______________ Louis had a strong and
large army.
c. What was Louis XIV’s main foreign policy goal?
d. Why did other European nations feel the need to form alliances against Louis?
e. Why did Louis XIV invade Flanders and French-Comte?
f. Who would defeat him?
g. France would invade the Dutch again this time with the ________ helping when
they signed the _______________________.
h. Dutch under the Prince of Orange signed alliance with Holy Roman Emperor,
Spain, Lorraine and Brandenburg the war ended with _________ side winning.
VI. Louis Repressive Religious Policies
a. What are Gallican liberties?
b. How did Henry IV affect these liberties?
c. What were Jansenists?
d. How did Louis XIV deal with the Jansenists in France?
e. Why was this a political mistake for Louis XIV to persecute the Jansenists?
f. Why did Louis XIV revoke the Edict of Nantes?
g. How was the revocation a mistake in the eyes of other European powers?