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Chapter 4 Section 21

Vocab Rachel Hollinger

__grands seigneurs__- lords

__Moderns__- literary critics who argued that modern literature and knowledge had in fact surpassed the achievements of antiquity and that "Ancients" deferred much to rigidly to ancient authorities

__Ancients__- Boileau's academic writers

__absolute monarchy__- a monarchy without constitutional limits

__Five Great Farms__- a province in France and was called that because of an ancient division of the duties of customs into five great branches, each of which was originally the subject of a particular farm, though they are all now united into one. No information as to their original names is available.

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__Vocab.__ __Nick Lapiana__

__Classicism - the favored or official aesthetic theory in the French academies; emphasized order, harmony, and the artistic achievements of antiquity.__

__Moderns - literary critics that argued that modern literature and knowledge had surpassed the achievements of antiquity and that Boileau's writers deffered too rigidly to ancient authorities.__

__Ancients - Boileau's academic writers.__

__Parlaments - French courts of law that were the supreme court for a certain area of the country.__

__Customs - regional systems of law.__ ​

__Danetta__

__found a virtual tour of the palace__ __[]__

__Questions__ __Jake Seagriff__ __–What distinguished France in the seventeenth century?__

__•Large population for western Europe__ __–19 million__ __–Triple England__ __•Variety of living conditions, classes and sources of wealth__ __•French art, architecture, and fashion were widely copied in Europe__ __•Louis XIV was a strong supporter of the arts__ __•Salons organized by upper-class women were meeting grounds for artists, writers, and philosophers__

__–How absolute was French absolutism? Why did the French people accept it?__

__•Absolutism was limited by localism in economic and political life, traditions, and institutions like the parlements, which were courts of law with the right to decree royal decrees unconstitutional__ __•Feudal liberties became associated with disorder when aristocratic rebellions, like the Fronde recalled the instability of the sixteenth century__ __•The King was dependent on a host of advisors and had to compromise with local traditions and vested interests__

__People__ __Tara Stolarski__

__Louis XIV- king of France, he helped France emerge as a great power, not just in a military sense but also with his people and culture, especially the arts, did not have outstanding credentials when first becoming king, he did, however, have the ability to learn, was always at war or prepared for war, made war "an activity of state,"__

__Bishop Bossuet- "all power comes from God and that all who hold power are responsible to God for the way they use it," believed that kings were God's representatives in political affairs, founder of the term "absolutism"__

__Colbert- minister of Louis, worked to make France economically powerful, reduced internal taxes and set up a tariff union called The Five Great Farms, set up the Commercial Code,__ _ Sam Petree- Questions

How was French culture spread throughout Europe? Foreign visitors of salons took the culture back to their homelands, spreading many French ideas.

What limited French absolutism? Localism in political and economic life, institutions like parlements, and traditions.

Louis XIV of France 17th Century France French Flag Jacob McClarnon Sec 21

Visuals ANastasia Clayton Moliere, famous french playwright

Louis XIV

Palace of Versailles