L'Etat c'est a moi

Louis XIV and the State

Bibliographic Data

ID8940990
AuthorsHerbert H Rowen (corresponding author)
Year1961
Volume2
Issue1
Pages83-83
Publication date1961-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrench Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/286184
OpenAlexW2325515962
LanguageEN
Citations received8

The relationship between king and state in the French monarchy of the Ancien Regime, although generally taken to be one of the plainest pieces of historical knowledge, is actually in an essential respect one of the least understood.' The customary picture of French kingship in the centuries before the Revolution may be summed up in two phrases, L'1Etat c'est moi and la grdce de Dieu (usually Englished as divine right): L'Etat c'est moi here implies an administrative monarchy equated with the person of the king, and la grace de Dieu is concerned with the justification rather than the description of the monarchy. Yet close scrutiny of the historical literature reveals a current of uneasiness-some

Absolute monarchy · Ancien regime · Ethnology · Humanities · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Scrutiny · State (computer science · Theology · European Political History Analysis · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy

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