BIG EXAM (Everything we have covered this year)

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: Read Pages. 530-540

Read: Primary Sources: "Civil War in France," Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq and "Political Will and Testament," Richeleiu
Questions:Examine the threats to the king's power,

How these threats were handled, and how the actions changed over time,

What outside factors contributed to tthe rise in power for the monarchy

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Lecture on Absolutism ""A Secular Defense of Absolutism Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan"

Discuss Henry IV--Why was he the most loved of French Kings? Sully and Richelieu SOCRATIC DIALOGUE (Be prepared to discuss reading)

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SOCRATIC DIALOGUE (Be prepared to discuss reading)
Assess to what extent it was Louis more than his predecessors who was responsible for French absolutism

Consider above statements by analyzing text using PERSIA
Louis 14th War of Succession questions/groups/socratic dialogue. Test Corrections.

Staging Absolutism Case Study:

What was the traditional and what was new in the justification of royal power as expressed in late sixteenth‐ and seventeenth century France?

How did such early modern kings as Louis XIV communicate their absolute power in the various ceremonies and symbols of royal authority presented in the evidence?

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No Class Read Filmer's Partriarcha and go back and re-read Bossuet's article
 on Divine Right

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