An eminent historian draws on forty-five years' research to offer a revised view of the rise of French absolutism.
J. Russell Major is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Renaissance History Emeritus at Emory University. His many books include The Monarchy, the Estates, and the Aristocracy in Renaissance France, Representative Government in Early Modern France, and The Western World: Renaissance to the Present.
This is likely to become the standard account of the origins of French absolutism for the next generation. Times Literary Supplement Major has already presented historians with noteworthy studies of political institutions in Renaissance and early modern France, but this is his chef-d'oeuvre, the culmination of years of fruitful research and analysis. The book is a forceful statement on the evolution of the French monarchy into the Ludovican absolutism of the late seventeenth century. Historian For over four decades, J. Russell Major has pursued a research agenda of exceptional coherence and importance, as this book clearly demonstrates. American Historical Review
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