Exile, Imprisonment, or Death: The Politics of Disgrace in Bourbon France, 1610-1789 by Julian SwannISBN: 9780198788690
Publication Date: 2017-03-12
To establish his personal authority, Louis XIII was forced to resort to conspiracy and murder, and even then his authority was constantly challenged. Yet a little over a century later, as the reign of Louis XIV drew to a close, such disobedience was impossible. Instead, a simple royal command expressing the sovereign's judgment of disgrace was sufficient to compel the most powerful men and women in the kingdom to submit to imprisonment or internal exile.