FT-52313-04 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Mark David Potter | Provincial Estates and Absolutism in Louis XIII's France | 6/1/2004 - 8/31/2004 | $5,000.00 | Mark | David | Potter | | | | University of Wyoming | Laramie | WY | 82071-2000 | USA | 2004 | European History | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
This is a book project in which I examine the relationship between provincial Estates and the French crown during the pivotal years surrounding the reign of Louis XIII (1610-1643). This was a period in the development of royal absolutism marked by attacks on provincial Estates that produced very different outcomes in different provinces. Using archival research, I will undertake to explain those different outcomes by focusing on the local social forces that either succeeded or failed in defending their Estates. |