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...French and German scholar, Ford published his first book, Robe and Sword: The Regrouping of the French Aristocracy after Louis XIV, in 1953. He gives alternate courses in French and German history when lecturing...
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...Jesuitical trick." The Jesuits have as persistently and meticulously fought the charge and elucidated the oft-small but decisive difference between unprincipled expediency and principled pragmatism. The order has suffered reverses and reprisals. In 1773, under political pressure from the courts of Spain, Portugal, Naples and France, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the order, and in the next 40 years it dwindled in membership from 23,000 to 600. During that time, when many Jesuits sought peace in the new U.S., John Adams warned Thomas Jefferson against them: "If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation...
...Louis XIV ruled an empire on which the sun quickly set, but its literary lights -Corneille, Racine, Pascal, La Fontaine-still glow. Among them was Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné, whom generations of critics have crowned "the queen of letter writers." In this selection of 272 out of many hundreds of De Sévigné letters, the diadem seems to have its fair share of paste jewels, but it is worn with a regal flourish and idiosyncratic authority...