The Wars of Religion

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French Absolutism
Nec pluribus ipar - without equal
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What are the characteristics of a modern nation?
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What are the characteristics of absolutism?
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Francis I (1515 1547)
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Concordot of Bologna
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Calvin Writes The Institutes (1536)
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How could Calvinism disrupt society?
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Henry IV of Navarre
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Why was Paris worth a mass?
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Edict of Nantes
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Why did Richelieu agree to fight on the side of
the Protestants during the Thirty Years War?
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• Politique
• Divided France into 32 districts
• Intendents governed districts
• Tolerated Huguenots.
• Opposition to Hapsburgs.
• Day of Dupes (11/10/1630)

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Louis XIV
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The Sun King
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Letat, cest moi
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How did Fronde impact the monarchy of France?
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• Louis at 4 years old.
• Mother Anne of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin help
  rule.
• The Fronde (slingshot)
• The Great Conde
• Louis consolidates authority

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Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619 - 1683)

• Controller general of the realm
• Made taxation more efficient
• Mercantilism

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Mercantilism Under Louis XIV

• All resources serve the state.
• Economic Self-sufficiency.
• Favorable balance of trade
• Founded commercial trading companies, levied high
  tariffs.
• Improved the infrastructure.

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Louis Absolutism

• Bureaucracy of loyal governors, intendents and
  bishops
• Created the Ministry of War.
• Limited the importation of books
• Censorship

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What if you were a member of the French nobility
during the reign of Louis XIV, how would you
spend your days at the Palace of Versailles?
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What would have happened to France if Louis XIV
never revoked the Edict of Nantes with the Edict
of Fountainbleau?
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Persecution

• 1670s began Huguenot persecution
• Closing churches and forced conversion
• 1685, Revoke the Edict of Nantes
• 200,000 emigrated

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Jansenists

• Cornelius Jansen
• Role of faith and grace in salvation.
• Calvinists who went to church
• Papal Bull Unigenitus (1713) condemned Jansenism

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War of the League of Augsburg
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War of Spanish Succession
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Impact

• Civilians generally spared.
• Commerce and Sea power were principle causes.
• First Global War.
• Peace of Utrecht
• Spain and France never united.
• British colonial supremacy.

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The War of Jenkins Ear

• Global rivalries.
• Since Peace of Utrecht, Spain granted Asiento.
• Illegal Trade by British.
• Spanish sword cut off Captain Jenkins ear.

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War of Austrian Succession

• Recognition of Maria Theresa as Hapsburg ruler.
• Frederick II (Prussia) invades Silesia.
• Pragmatic Sanction
• Recognize Hungarys status.

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Seven Years War(1756-1763)

• First truly global conflict.
• Commercial interests of France and Britain
  clashed.
• Patriotic enthusiasm.
• Diplomatic Revolution.
• Left combatants exhausted

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How does absolutism compare with our current form
of government?