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Title: divine right of kings
Review: Church's collection of essays on Louis 14 is most distinguished. Contributors include Voltaire and Montesquieu. The contributors hail from times much closer to Louis' reign than to ours. While perhaps not quite contemporaneous, they offer lucid assessments of how effective he was, in building the French nation-state. As well as maintaining an absolutist monarchical regime; the envy of other European kings.Here, largely unchallenged, are accounts of the divine right of kings to rule. Unblemished by dissidents that lay decades and centuries hence. The book is useful, in a meta-analysis fashion. For it is not just the views of its authors per se, that the reader should consider. But the predominant world views of the times in which the authors wrote.
