French Society and Popular Uprisings under Louis XIV

Bernard, Léon

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“…Excellent examples of this appear in the late Republican period of Rome [55] ; of particular note is the career and attempted rebellion of Catiline [56] . The repeated, and often unsuccessful, peasant revolts of medieval Europe also exhibit many of these features [57] .…”

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Apparent Strength Conceals Instability in a Model for the Collapse of Historical States

Lawson

Oak

2014

PLoS ONE

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An explanation for the political processes leading to the sudden collapse of empires and states would be useful for understanding both historical and contemporary political events. We examine political disintegration across eras, cultures and geographical scale to form a simple hypothesis that can be expressed verbally yet formulated mathematically. Factions within a state make choices described by game-theory about whether to accept the political status quo, or to attempt to better their circumstances through costly rebellion. In lieu of precise data we verify our model using sensitivity analysis. We find that a small amount of dissatisfaction is typically harmless to the state, but can trigger sudden collapse when there is a sufficient buildup of political inequality. Contrary to intuition, a state is predicted to be least stable when its leadership is at the height of its political power and thus most able to exert its influence through external warfare, lavish expense or autocratic decree.

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Apparent Strength Conceals Instability in a Model for the Collapse of Historical States

Lawson

Oak

2014

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“…By the same token, the crown took advantage of the opportunity provided by such events to reduce the independence of action of local officials, as well as to impose a hefty fine, a trend already well established in the sixteenth century. 68 It is argued that it was under Henry II (1547-59) in the 1550s that urban autonomy was first seriously attacked by the crown, in the drive to finance the escalating costs of military ventures. However, since at least the mid-fifteenth century there had been efforts to retain the loyalties of the so-called bonnes villes by keeping a tight rein on those seen to be resisting royal policy.…”

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Urban conflict and royal authority: popular revolts in sixteenth-century Troyes

Roberts

2007

Urban History

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This paper explores the relative balance between socio-economic grievance and confessional and political division in urban revolts during the period of the French religious wars. More particularly, it focuses on two such incidents in the town of Troyes in Champagne in the summer of 1586 and what they can tell us about the influence of popular discontent on municipal politics and towncrown relations, as well as the impact of civil war, subsistence crisis and increasing taxation on urban communities. The continuity of the traditions of popular revolt are explored alongside the implications for royal authority of the official response to such unrest. Social tensions and economic concerns dominated events in the town, whilst the crown's right and ability to enforce its will continued to be accepted and upheld. Thus, despite the disruption of civil strife, the competing interests of the municipal authorities, the urban populace and the monarchy were able to maintain a delicate equilibrium through the traditional mechanism of negotiation and compromise.

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Class conflict and class collaboration in regional rebellions, 1500 to 1700

Brustein

1985

Theor Soc

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European revolts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have engendered one of the longest debates in social history. The central issue is whether these rebellions were essentially spontaneous outbreaks and expressions of class conflict or were instigated by nobility and officials who made common cause with peasants against royal fiscality and centralism. ~ Boris Porchnev claims that French revolts before the Fronde pitted peasants and the urban poor against a ruling-class united front, the monarchy being but the pliant tool of the feudal nobility and clergy. 2 R. H. Tawney also argues that the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England were marked by landlord-peasant conflict over expropriation, engrossings, and enclosures. ~ Other scholars, however, object to the imposition of a nineteenth-century Marxist analysis on an earlier era. Mousnier and many historians of France find evidence of coalitions between peasants and landlords against a central government that despoiled feudal lords of their power and taxed the lower classes into abject poverty? Pursuing a similar argument for England, Eric Kerridge claims that the capitalist agricultural revolution could never have blossomed had farmers not felt secure in their tenure, as otherwise they would not have undertaken improvements. In contrast to Tawney, Kerridge views English class relations as essentially cooperative. 5This debate over the meaning of revolts will remain unresolved as long as each side continues to refer only to the historical cases that support its position. The historical record indicates that both class-conflict rebellions and class-collaboration rebellions occurred. 6 Once this variation is recognized, a more fruitful question is how can we explain it.The debate over the meaning of rebellion generally ignores the systematic relationship between particular forms of collective action and particular types of regions. In this article, I present a model to account for this relationship and then I apply this model to Britain, France, and Spain of the

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French Society and Popular Uprisings under Louis XIV

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Apparent Strength Conceals Instability in a Model for the Collapse of Historical States

Apparent Strength Conceals Instability in a Model for the Collapse of Historical States

Urban conflict and royal authority: popular revolts in sixteenth-century Troyes

Class conflict and class collaboration in regional rebellions, 1500 to 1700

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