Thematic Studies

Political and Administrative History

Antoine, Michel. Le Conseil du Roi sous le règne de Louis XV. Geneva: Droz, 1970.

Beik, William. Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Bonney, Richard. Political Change in France under Richelieu and Mazarin, 1624-1661. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Major, J. Russell. From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles, and Estates. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Economic History

Goubert, Pierre. Beauvais et le Beauvaisis de 1600 à 1730. Paris: SEVPEN, 1960.

Hoffman, Philip T. Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450-1815. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Riley, James C. The Seven Years War and the Old Regime in France: The Economic and Financial Toll. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Religious History

Bergin, Joseph. Church, Society and Religious Change in France, 1580-1730. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.

McManners, John. Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France. 2 volumes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Van Kley, Dale K. The Religious Origins of the French Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

Cultural and Intellectual History

Burke, Peter. The Fabrication of Louis XIV. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Chartier, Roger. The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991.

Ranum, Orest. Artisans of Glory: Writers and Historical Thought in Seventeenth-Century France. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.

Women and Gender

Collins, James B. The Economic Role of Women in Seventeenth-Century France. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Crawford, Katherine. Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Hanley, Sarah. The Lit de Justice of the Kings of France: Constitutional Ideology in Legend, Ritual, and Discourse. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.

The Nobility

Dewald, Jonathan. The European Nobility, 1400-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Motley, Mark. Becoming a French Aristocrat: The Education of the Court Nobility, 1580-1715. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Schalk, Ellery. From Valor to Pedigree: Ideas of Nobility in France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986.