HST 122 -- Absolutism

I. Introduction

II. France
    A. Henry IV (1589-1610)
        1. issued Edict of Nantes (1598)
	2. began selling government offices, creating robe nobles
        3. cleaning up government corruption
            - e.g., cracking down on embezzling tax collectors

    B. Louis XIII (1610-43)
	1. only 8 years old when he took the throne
	2. his mother (Marie de Medici) served as regent
        3. Cardinal Richelieu was his tutor and chief minister
		who essentially ran the government
	4. Richelieu continued the centralization of government power
            a. he crushed insubordinate nobles
            b. he ruled the French localities via intendants

    C. Louis XIV (1643-1715)
            1. only 5 years old when he took the throne
            2. Cardinal Jules Mazarin was his tutor and chief minister from 1643-61
            3. centralization of power continued under Mazarin, but Louis XIV
                set out to control all aspects of French society when he began
                to rule on his own in 1661
		a. the landed nobility
			1. system of patronage
			2. Versailles (1, 2, 3, 4)
				a. entertainment
				b. ceremony
				c. intrigue
		b. the economy
			1. Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-83)
			2. mercantilism
				a. stimulate manufacturing
				b. promote exports
				c. tax imports
		c. the church
			1. Jansenists (Cornelius Jansen)
			2. Huguenots

III. Russia
	Film on Peter the Great