A lust for virtue : Louis XIV's attack on sin in seventeenth-century France / Philip F. Riley.
2001
BX1529 .R55 2001
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Title
A lust for virtue : Louis XIV's attack on sin in seventeenth-century France / Philip F. Riley.
Author
ISBN
0313317089 (alk. paper)
9780313317088 (alk. paper)
9780313317088 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 203 pages ; 25 cm.
Call Number
BX1529 .R55 2001
System Control No.
(OCoLC)45618340
Summary
As a young prince, Louis XIV paid little attention to virtue or sin, but he later became committed to imprisoning blasphemers and prostitutes. Using police and prison archives, administrative correspondence, memoirs and letters, this volume describes the formation of Louis's narrow conscience.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-191) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
A Lust for Virtue
Watchdog of Parisian Sin
Soldiers of Satan
Adultery Most Royal
Safeguarding Souls
Courtly Sin.
Watchdog of Parisian Sin
Soldiers of Satan
Adultery Most Royal
Safeguarding Souls
Courtly Sin.
Access Note
Subscription-based license for unlimited simultaneous UFV users.
Series
Contributions to the study of world history ; no. 88. 0885-9159
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