Abstract:The French monarchy was never completely free from institutional checks on its power, even during the height of “absolutism” under Louis XIV. There existed the sovereign courts and the provincial estates, which continued to function right up until the Revolution. Concentrating on the monarchy’s relationship with these institutions, I hope to show that while the French kings were absolute in theory, in reality they were not.
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