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| held commission to perform specific tasks often financial but also judicial and policing transmitted information from local communities to Paris and delivered royal orders from capital to their generalites |
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| where Maximilien de Bethune was from he was the duke |
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| annual fee paid by officials to guarantee heredity in their offices |
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| means slingshot or catapult Mazarin attempts to increase royal revenues led to civil wars known as Fronde |
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| weakened power of nobles wanted to weaken Hapsburgs who surrounded France |
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| Richelieu’s generalites |
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| France divided into32 generalites in which intendants held specific task (districts) |
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| began the preparation of dictionary to standardize the French language official group of philologists who were interested in grammar and rhetoric |
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| sun king devout catholic believed god had established kings as his rulers on earth |
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| Louis XIV established royal court there |
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| comedies illustrate classicism in French theater |
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| tragedies illustrate classicism in French theater |
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| Nicholas generally considered finest example of French classicist painting |
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| Phillip left several kingdoms to him able administrator he believed that the solution to Spain’s difficulties rested in a return to imperial tradition |
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| council in France Louis got rid of because he wanted full power |
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| joint stock company formed by a group of regents of Holland |
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| represented balance of power principle in operation setting limits on the extent to which any one power |
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| council of 5 to serve as both his major advisers and as members of the Parliament |
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| council of 5 to serve as both his major advisers and as members of the Parliament |
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| gave all Christians except roman Catholics right o practice faith |
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| they believed reformation had not gone far enough in the church of England |
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| controlled army religious tolerance for all except Catholics censored press and closed theaters regulated economy according to mercantilist principles |
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| violated test by not giving government and university jobs to Catholics fear of catholic monarchy led to expulsion of him |
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| duke of Marlborough defeated Louis in 1704 in Blenheim in Bavaria |
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| ended up handing government to lazy duke of Lerma |
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