A. D. Lublinskaya’s Project of a Monograph about Fronde

This article is devoted to the unfulfilled plans of the Soviet historian from Leningrad Alexandra Lublinskaya, related to her intention to write a book about an important socio-political movement in France in the middle of the 17th century, Fronde. In the scientific and historical archive of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the working archive of Alexandra Lublinskaya was preserved, which included a separate folder with preparatory materials for this monograph, work on which began in 1977—1978, but was not completed due to the death of the researcher. The content of these materials shows that the view of Fronda by A. D. Lublinskaya was very different both from the concepts and established opinions of French and European historians, and her main internal opponent Boris Porshnev. A significant part of this unwritten book was to be devoted to an open polemic with this historian about the fate of French absolutism and the role of social movements, a polemic that began in the late of 1940s and was never completed

Absolute monarchy · Attendance · Historical and Political Studies · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Soviet and Russian History