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- Title
A godly Fronde? Jansenism and the mid-seventeenth-century crisis of the French monarchy.
- Authors
Quantin, Jean-Louis
- Abstract
This article gives sceptical attention to claims made by both contemporaries and subsequent historians about the involvement of Jansenists in the Fronde and subsequent resistance to royal government in the 1650s. It explores both the difficulties of separating Jansenists from a wider group of reforming rigorists within the Catholic Church, and the dangers of accepting positions and assertions that were the result of polemical debate and later religious and political antagonisms. The author finds little or no evidence for the direct involvement of Jansenists in revolt, whether in Paris or in the provincial risings, and argues that the motives of those, whether religious or secular, who continued resistance to Cardinal Mazarin in the later 1650s had little or nothing to do with adherence to Jansenist principles. There is a clear discontinuity between the Jansenist-inspired resistance to royal government in the eighteenth century and the roles played by Jansenists in the events of the 1650s.
- Subjects
FRANCE; JANSENISTS; JANSENISM (Christianity); RESISTANCE to government; CATHOLIC Church; CHURCH renewal; RELIGION &; politics; FRONDE
- Publication
French History, 2011, Vol 25, Issue 4, p473
- ISSN
0269-1191
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fh/crr065