Peace of Westphalia (1648)
Louis XIV (1638-1715)
L'Etat, c'est moi ("I am the state," "the state, that's me")
Fronde (1648-53)
parlement
intendants
Anne of Austria (1601-66)
Cardinal Mazarin (1602-61)
Versailles
levee (rising)
Norbert Elias, "The Civilizing Proecess"
bureau/cracy
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-83)
mercantilism
James I
True Law of a Free Monarchy (1598)
Jean Bodin (1530-96)
Bossuet (1627-1704)
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Leviathan (1651)
"state of nature"
"solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short"
Francois Hotman (1524-90)
Sir Edwar Coke (1552-1634)
Magna Carta
Saxon
Parliament
John Locke
epistemology
tabula rasa (blank slate)
empiricism
Two Treatises of Government (1690)
 
 

"We have seen that kings take the place of God, who is the true father of the human species.  We have also seen that the first idea of power which exists among men is that of the paternal power; and that kings are modeled on fathers."  Bossuet