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This is a very extensive list, providing a detailed coverage going
far beyond that which would be expected from any individual student.
It is intended for use after discussions between student and tutor,
which will provide guidance on specific items relevant to each assignment.
Reference Works
General Works
Regional Studies
Economic and Financial History
Social History
Political and Administrative History
Popular Revolts
Religion and Ideas
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A. REFERENCE WORKS
1. M. Marion, Dictionnaire des institutions de la France aux
17e et 18e siècles (1923, new ed. 1968).
Indispensable.
2. G. Cabourdin and G. Viard, Lexique historique de la France
d'Ancien Régime (1978).
Excellent modern alternative, wider-ranging.
3. R. Doucet, Les institutions de la France au 16e siècle
(2 v.,1948)
4. G. Zeller, Les institutions de la France au 16e siècle
(1948)
5. R. Mousnier, Les institutions de la France sous la monarchie
absolue (2 v. 1974-80).
More general than title suggests; now available in English translation.
6. F. Bluche (ed), Dictionnaire du Grand Siècle
(1991).
Up-to-date collection of short biographies and articles; big book
with very wide coverage.
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B. GENERAL WORKS
1. E. Lavisse, Histoire de France, vols 6-8.
Still the best political narrative.
2. V.-L. Tapie, France under Richelieu and Mazarin (1975)
3. P. Goubert, Louis XIV and Twenty Million Frenchmen (1970)
4. P. Goubert, L'ancien régime (2v, 1969-73, first
vol. only in Eng. trans. 1973).
The best analytical treatment. Now also available in P. Goubert
& D. Roche, Les Français et l'ancien régime
(2v, 1984).
5. R. Briggs, Early Modern France, 1560-1715 (2nd ed.
1998)
6. R. Mandrou, La France aux 17e et 18e siècles
(1967)
7. R. Mandrou, Introduction à la France moderne (1961).
Patchy but often original. Also in translation.
8. R. Mandrou, Louis XIV en son temps (1973)
9. H. Methivier, Le siècle de Louis XIII (Que sais-je)
10. H. Methivier, L'ancien régime
11. D. Parker, The Making of French Absolutism (1983).
A very helpful up-to-date introduction.
12. D. Richet, La France moderne; l'esprit des institutions
(1974).
Short but lively.
13. J. Russell Major, Representative Government in Early Modern
France (1982).
A mass of interesting information, but some improbable and anachronistic
interpretations.
14. J. Russell Major, From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute
Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles, and Estates (1994)
15. P.J. Coveney (ed), France in Crisis, 1620-75 (1977).
A collection of useful articles in translation.
16. J. Lough, France Observed (1985).
Fascinating summary of comments by English travellers.
17. A. Lebigre, La justice du roi (1989).
Good summary of legal system.
18. P. Benedict (ed), Cities and Social Change in Early Modern
France (1989)
19. J.B. Collins, The State in Early Modern France (1995)
20. Y-M. Bercé, The Birth of Absolutism; A History
of France 1598-1661 (1996)
21. D. Parker, Class and State in Ancien Régime France;
The Road to Modernity? (1996)
22. E. Le Roy Ladurie, The Ancien Regime, 1610-1715 (1996)
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C. REGIONAL STUDIES
1. P. Goubert, Beauvais et le Beauvaisis de 1600 à
1730 (2 v, 1960)
2. E. Le Roy Ladurie, Les paysans de Languedoc (2 v, 1966)
3. P. Deyon, Amiens, capitale provinciale (1967)
These three classic monographs are fundamental for the social,
economic and demographic history of the period.
4. J. Jacquart, La crise rurale en Ile-de-France (1975)
5. G. Frêche, Toulouse et la région Midi-Pyrenées
au siècle des lumières, vers 1670-1789 (1975)
6. G. Roupnel, La ville et la campagne au 17e siècle
(1922, new ed. 1955)
7. P. de Saint-Jacob, Les paysans de la Bourgogne du Nord
pendant le dernier siècle de l'ancien régime (1960)
8. F. Lebrun, Les hommes et la mort en Anjou (17e-18e siècles)
(1971)
9. G. Bouchard, Le village immobile; Sennely-en-Sologne au
18e siècle (1971).
Despite the title, interesting on late 17th century.
10. J.K.J. Thomson, Clermont-de-Lodève, 1633-1789
(1982)
11. J.B. Collins, Classes, Estates, and Order in Early Modern
Brittany (1994)
12. J.-M. Moriceau, Les fermiers de l'Ile de France: l'ascension
d'un patronat agricole (XVe-XVIIIe siècle) (1994).
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D. ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL HISTORY
1 F. Braudel and E. Labrousse (eds), Histoire économique
et sociale de la France, vols I and II (1971-9).
Essential.
2. G. Duby and A. Wallon (eds), Histoire de la France agraire,
vol II (1976).
Another excellent summary of recent research.
3. M. Bloch, French Rural History, an Essay (1966)
4. R.J. Bonney, The King's Debts, 1598-1661 (1982)
5. D. Dessert, Argent, Pouvoir et société au
grand siècle (1984)
6. J. Dent, Crisis in Finance; Crown, Financiers and Society
in Seventeenth Century France (1973)
7. E. Esmonin, La taille en Normandie au temps de Colbert
(1913)
8. H. Hauser, La pensée et l'action économiques
du Cardinal de Richelieu (1944)
9. C.W. Cole, Colbert and a Century of French Mercantilism
(2 v, 1939)
10. J. Meyer, Colbert (1981)
11. J. Meuvret, Etudes d'histoire économique (1972)
12. J. Meuvret, Le Problème des subsistences à
l'époque de Louis XIV (3 vols., 1978-88)
13. W.C. Scoville, The Persecution of the Huguenots and French
Economic Development, 1680-1720 (1960)
14. F.C. Spooner, The International Economy and Monetary Movements
in France, 1493-1725 (1972).
Technical but important.
15. D. Hickey, The Coming of French Absolutism: The Struggle
for Tax Reform in the Province of Dauphiné, 1540-1640 (1986)
16. J.B. Collins, Fiscal Limits of Absolutism: Direct Taxation
in Early Seventeenth Century France (1988)
17. F. Bayard, Le Monde des financiers au 17e siecle (1988)
18. C. Michaud, L'Église et l'Argent sous l'Ancien
Régime: Les receveurs généraux du clergé
de France aux xvie-xviie siècles (1991)
19. R. J. Bonney (ed), Economic Systems and State Finance
(1995)
20. T.J. Schaeper, The French Council of Commerce 1700-1715:
a Study of Mercantilism after Colbert (1983)
21. P.T. Hoffman, Growth in a Traditional Society: the French
Countryside 1450-1815 (1996)
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E. SOCIAL HISTORY
1. P. Goubert, The French Peasantry in the Seventeenth Century
(1985)
2. J. Meyer, La noblesse bretonne au 18e siècle
(2 v., 1966).
Important section on reign of Louis XIV.
3. J.B. Wood, The Nobility of the Election of Bayeux (1980)
4. J.-P. Labatut, Les ducs et pairs au 17e siècle (1973)
5. F.L. Ford, Robe and Sword (1952)
6. D. Bitton, The French Nobility in Crisis, 1540-1640
(1968)
7. M. Corvisier, L'armée française de la fin
du 17e siècle au ministère de Choiseul (1964)
8. J.-P. Gutton, La société et les pauvres
(1970)
9. J.-L. Flandrin, Families in Former Times (1979)
10. R. Mousnier, Social Hierarchies (1973)
11. A. Arriaza, 'Mousnier, Barber and the "Society of Orders"
', Past and Present 89, 1980
12. H.L. Root, Peasants and King in Burgundy: Agrarian Foundations
of French Absolutism (1987)
13. M. Lachivier, Les années de misère: la famine
au temps du Grand Roi (1991)
14. J. Dewald, Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of
Modern Culture: France, 1570-1715 (1993)
15. D. Garrioch, The Formation of the Parisian Bourgeoisie,
1690-1830 (1996)
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F. POLITICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY
(a) General
1. R.J. Bonney, Political Change in France under Richelieu
and Mazarin (1978).
Fundamental work on the intendants and their place in government.
2. R. Mousnier, La plume, la faucille et le marteau
(1970).
Important collection of articles.
3. E. Esmonin, Etudes sur la France des 17e et 18e siècles
(1964)
4. G. Zeller, Aspects de la politique française sous
l'ancien régime (1964)
5. R. Harding, The Anatomy of a Power Elite (1979).
Study of provincial governors.
6. S. Kettering, Patrons, Brokers and Clients in Seventeenth-Century
France (1986)
7. W.H. Beik, Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century
France: State Power and Provincial Aristocracy in Languedoc
(1985)
8. J.H. Shennan, The Parlement of Paris (1968 )
9. R.F. Kierstead (ed), State and Society in Seventeenth
Century France (1975).
Collection of useful articles.
10. A. Jouanna, Le devoir de révolte: la noblesse
et la gestation de l'Etat moderne, 1559-1661 (1989)
11. M.P. Holt (ed), Society and Institutions in Early Modern
France (1991)
12. D. Parker, 'Sovereignty, Absolutism and the Function of
the Law in Seventeenth Century France', Past and Present
122 (1989)
13. J.A. Lynn, Giant of the Grand Siècle: the French
Army, 1610-1715 (1997)
14. J.M. Smith, The Culture of Merit: Nobility, Royal Service,
and the Making of Absolute Monarchy in France, 1600-1789
(1996)
(b) Henri IV
1. M. Greengrass, France in the Age of Henry IV (1984,
revised ed. 1995)
2. J. Garrison, Henry IV (1983)
3. D. Buisseret, Sully and the Growth of Centralised Government
in France, 1598-1610 (1968)
4. R. Mousnier, The Assassination of Henry IV (1973)
5. E.H. Dickerman, Bellièvre and Villeroy (1971)
6. R.F. Kierstead, Pomponne de Bellièvre (1968)
(c) Louis XIII
1. P. Chevallier, Louis XIII (1979)
2. A.L. Moote, Louis XIII, the Just (1989)
3. J.M. Hayden, France and the Estates General of 1614
(1974)
4. A.D. Lublinskaya, French Absolutism; The Crucial Phase
1620-9 (1968).
Interesting but rather wayward book.
5. D. Parker; 'The Social Foundations of French Absolutism,
1610-30', Past and Present 53 (1971).
Good critique of Lublinskaya.
6. D. Parker, La Rochelle and the French Monarchy (1980)
7. R. Mousnier, La venalité des offices sous Henri
IV et Louis XIII (1945, new ed 1971)
8. G. Hanotaux and the duc de la Force, Histoire du Cardinal
de Richelieu (6 v., 1896-1933)
9. J.H. Elliott, Richelieu and Olivares (1984)
10. O.A. Ranum, Richelieu and the Councillors of Louis XIII
(1963)
11. E. Thuau, Raison d'état et pensée politique
à l'époque de Richelieu (1966)
12. W.F. Church, Richelieu and Reason of State (1972)
13. J. Bergin, Cardinal Richelieu: Power and the Pursuit
of Wealth (1985)
14. J. Bergin, The Rise of Richelieu (1991)
15. R.J. Knecht, Richelieu (1991)
16. E.W. Marvick, Louis XIII: The Making of a King (1986)
17. J. Bergin and L. Brockliss (eds), Richelieu and his
Age (1992)
18. R. Mousnier, L'Homme rouge, ou la vie du Cardinal de
Richelieu (1992)
19. J.K. Sawyer, Printed Poison: Pamphlet Propaganda, Faction
Politics, and the Public Sphere in Early Seventeenth Century
France (1990)
20. H. Duccini, Concini: Grandeur et misère du favori
de Marie de Médicis (1991)
21. H. Méchoulan (ed), L'État baroque, 1610-52
(1985)
22. D.A. Parrott, 'The Causes of the Franco-Spanish War of
1635-59', in J. Black (ed), The Origins of War in Early Modern
Europe (1987)
23. M.P. Holt, The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629
(1995)
(d) Louis XIV before 1661
1. E. Kossmann, La Fronde (1954)
2. A.L. Moote, The Revolt of the Judges (1971).
Good information on the parlement of Paris, but some odd judgements.
3. J.H.M. Salmon, Cardinal de Retz (1969)
4. S.A. Westrich, The Ormée of Bordeaux (1971)
5. R.J. Bonney, 'The French Civil War, 1649-53', European
Studies Review, 1978
6. R.J. Bonney, 'Cardinal Mazarin and His Critics; the Remonstrance
of 1652', Journal of European Studies 10, 1980
7. R.J. Bonney, 'Cardinal Mazarin and the Great Nobility during
the Fronde', English Hist. Rev. 1981.
These articles and others are now available in Bonney's The
Limits of Absolutism in ancien régime France (1995)
8. A.N. Hamscher, The Parlement of Paris after the Fronde
(1976)
9. J.D. Lassaigne, Les assemblées de la noblesse
pendant l'ancien régime (1965)
10. C. Jouhaud, Mazarinades; la Fronde des mots (1985
11. D. Dessert, Fouquet (1987)
12. H. Carrier, Les Mazarinades: La conquête de l'opinion
(1989) and Les Hommes du livre (1991)
13. P. Goubert, Mazarin (1990)
14. J. Bérenger, Turenne (1987)
15. O.A. Ranum, The Fronde: A French Revolution 1648-52
(1993)
(e) Louis XIV after 1661
1. A. Corvisier, La France de Louis XIV, 1643-1715 (1979)
2. J.B. Wolf, Louis XIV (1968)
3. L. André, Michel le Tellier et Louvois (1942)
4. A. Corvisier, Louvois (1982)
5. G. Livet, L'intendance d'Alsace sous Louis XIV (1956)
6. L. Rothkrug, Opposition to Louis XIV (1965)
7. R.M. Hatton (ed), Louis XIV and Absolutism (1976)
8. R.M. Hatton (ed), Louis XIV and Europe (1976)
9. J. Rule (ed), Louis XIV and the Craft of Kingship
(1969)
10. A. Lebigre, Les Grands Jours de l'Auvergne (1977)
11. R. Mettam, Power and Faction in Louis XIV's France
(1988)
12. A.N. Hamscher, The Conseil Privé and the Parlements
in the Age of Louis XIV: A Study in French Absolutism, Transactions
of the American Philosophical Society, vol 77 pt 2 (1987)
13. P. Sonnino, Louis XIV and the Origins of the Dutch War
(1988)
14. P. Burke, The Fabrication of Louis XIV (1992)
15. J-M. Apostolidès, Le Roi-machine: spectacle et
politique au temps de Louis XIV (1981)
16. D.J. Sturdy, Louis XIV (1998)
17. W. Doyle, Venality: the Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century
France (1996)
18. C. Mukerji, Territorial ambitions and the gardens of
Versailles (1997)
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G. POPULAR REVOLTS
1. Y-M. Bercé, Histoire des Croquants (2 v, 1974).
[Shortened English version as The History of Popular Revolts
(1990)]
2. R. Pillorget, Les mouvements insurrectionelles en Provence,
1596-1715 (1975)
3. M. Foisil, La révolte des nu-pieds (1970)
4. B. Porchnev, Les soulèvements populaires en France
de 1623 à 1648 (1963).
Some curious interpretations, but still informative.
5. R. Mousnier, Peasant Uprisings (1971).
Very polemical; treat with caution.
6. M. Prestwich, review article on Porchnev and Mousnier, English
Hist. Rev. 1966, pp. 565-72.
7. J.H.M. Salmon, 'Venal Office and Popular Sedition in Seventeenth-
Century France', Past and Present 37, 1967
8. R. Mandrou, Classes et luttes de classes en France au debut
du 17e siècle (1965)
9. Y-M. Bercé, Croquants et Nu-pieds (1974)
10. Y-M. Bercé, Fête et révolte (1977)
11. S. Kettering, Judicial Politics and Urban Revolt: the
Parlement of Aix, 1629-59 (1978)
12. C. Tilly , The Contentious French (1986)
13. J.H.M. Salmon, 'The Audijos revolt: provincial liberties
and institutional rivalries under Louis XIV', in ibid., Renaissance
and Revolt (1987)
14. W. Beik, Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France:
the Culture of Retribution (1997)
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H. RELIGION AND IDEAS
1. J. Delumeau, Catholicism between Luther and Voltaire (1978)
2. R. Taveneaux, Le catholicisme dans la France classique
(2 v, 1980)
3. F. Lebrun (ed), Histoire des Catholiques en France
(1980)
4. A. Croix, La Bretagne aux 16e et 17e siècles
(2 v, 1980).
Part III is on religion.
5. L. Pérouas, Le diocèse de la Rochelle, 1648-1724
(1964)
6. J. Ferté, La vie religieuse dans les campagnes parisiennes,
1622-1695 (1962)
7. R. Sauzet, Contre-réforme et réforme catholique
en Bas-Languedoc (1979)
8. P.T. Hoffman, Church and Community in the Diocese of Lyon.
1500-1789 (1984)
9. K.P. Luria, Territories of Grace: Cultural Change in the
Seventeenth-Century Diocese of Grenoble (1991)
10. J. Orcibal, Louis XIV et les protestants (1952)
11. E. Labrousse, 'Une foi, une loi, un roi?' Essai sur la
révocation de l'Édit de Nantes (1985)
12. L. Goldmann, The Hidden God (1964)
13. R. Briggs, Communities of Belief (1989)
14. A. Adam, Grandeur and Illusion: French Literature and
Society, 1600-1715 (1972)
15. P. Bénichou, Morales du grand siècle (1948)
16. H.-J. Martin, Livre, Pouvoirs et société
à Paris au 17e siècle (2 v, 1969)
17. H.-J. Martin (ed), Histoire de l'édition française,
vols I and II (1982-4)
18. R. Muchembled, Culture des élites et culture populaire
(1978)
19. R. Mandrou, Magistrats et sorciers en France au 17e siècle
(1968)
20. N. Keohane, Philosophy and the State in France (1980)
21. R. Muchembled, La violence au village (1989)
22. R. Muchembled, L'invention de l'homme moderne (1988)
23. A. Soman, Sorcellerie et justice criminelle (16e-18e siècles)
(1992)
24. A.C. Kors, Atheism in France, 1650-1729, vol I (1990)
25. G. Hanlon, Confession and Community in Seventeenth-Century
France: Catholic and Protestant Coexistence in Acquitaine
(1993)
26. H. Phillips, Church andCulture in Seventeenth-Century
France (1996)
27. E. Le Roy Ladurie, Saint-Simon ou le système de
la Cour (1997)
28. M. Fumaroli, L'Age de l'éloquence (1980)
29. M. Fumaroli, Le poète et le Roi: Jean de La Fontaine
en son siècle (1997)
30. D. Gordon, Citizens without Sovereignty (1994)
31. J. Bergin, The Making of the Franch Episcopate, 1589-1661
(1996)
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