Ch 21-2

Group Discussions

Religious and political turmoil in France encourage absolutism? How did it encourage skepticism?

Standards:

I-C.3 Explain and analyze revolutions (e.g., democratic, scientific, technological, social) as they evolved throughout the enlightenment and their enduring effects on political, economic and cultural institutions.

Objective:

Describe the reign of Louis XIV and the power struggles in Europe.

Describe conflicts in Europe.

Analyze ideas of important French thinkers.

Explain Louis XIV's policies and characterize the style of his court.

Describe France's disastrous wars.

WICOR: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading

EQ: How did religious and political turmoil in France encourage absolutism? How did it encourage skepticism?

Religious Wars and power Struggles

Henry of Navarre

Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu

Writers to turn towards skepticism

Montaigne and Descartes

Louis XIV comes to power

Louise the boy King

Louis weakens the Nobles Authority

Economic Growth

The Sun Kings Grand Style

Lewis controls the nobility

Patronage of the Arts

The Louis fights disastrous War

Attempts to expand France’s boundary

War of Spanish succession

Louis's death & Legacy

Vocabulary:

Edict of Nantes

Order that gave Huguenots the right to love in peace in Catholic France

Cardinal Richelieu

Chief minister of France who reduces the power of the Nobles

Skepticism

Belief that nothing could be known for certain

Louis XIV

French king who was an absolute ruler

Intendant

Official of the French government

Jean Baptiste Colbert

Chief Minister of Finance under Louis XIV

War of the Spanish Succession

War fought by other European nations against France and Spain when those two states tried to unite their thrones