5. The Age of Louis XIV in France

Church, William F., ed.. The Impact of Absolutism in France: National Experience under Richelieu, Mazarin, and Louis XIV. (Major Issues in History.) New York: Wiley, 1969. (Part II, numbers 1-4, and Part III, numbers 1-9, are primary sources. The other materials are secondary sources. Instructor has table of contents.) PCL Stacks: 320.944 C475I

Goubert, Pierre. The Ancien Regime: French Society, 1600-1750. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973. Technically a secondary source, but because of the selections from documents that it contains, you may count it as a primary source. PCL Stacks: HN 425 G6613 1973B

Mettam, Roger. Government and Society in Louis XIV’s France. London: Macmillan, 1977. (Instructor has table of contents.) PCL Stacks: DC 125 G68

Ranum, Orest A., and Patricia Ranum, eds. The Century of Louis XIV. (Documentary History of Western Civilization.) New York: Harper & Row, 1972. (Instructor has table of contents.) PCL Stacks: D 273 A2 R35 1972

Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy. Versailles, The Court and Louis XIV. Selected and translated by Nancy Mitford. New York: Harper & Row, 1966. (Selections from the memoires of Saint-Simon, a direct observer of events at the Palace of Versailles in the reign of Louis XIV.) PCL Stacks: DC 130 SA2 A1895 1966

Ziegler, Gilette G. The Court of Versailles. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1966. (Eye-witness reports from the reign of Louis XIV.) PCL Stacks: 914.436 Z62CTT V. 1