Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day volume 1
Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day volume 1
William Walton
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Maxime Petit, in his review of the important work by Emile Bourgeois, Lc Grand Steele, " that which Voltaire selected as the most important, is not the history of the negotiations and THE COURT AND THE UPPER CLASSES ]/7 the battles, but that of the manners and customs, the ideas, the beliefs, the letters, and the arts. . . . Never, perhaps, more than in the time of Louis XIV was there a more complete har- mony between the ideas and the life. The political forces are thoroughly disciplined, and ...the principle of authority, which Richelieu had developed to its fullest extent, reigns uncontested. Polite society — the only one to be considered — believes itself to be in possession of absolute rules, and, in the court as in the city, the heart abdicates in favor of reason. " " When one speaks of the seventeenth century in France, " says M. Louis Fargcs,
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