France: Religion and Rule
The Catholic King Louis XIV's 1685 "Edict of Fontainebleau" forbade worship of what in France?
What is Protestantism?
This king fled to France after William of Orange’s successful invasion.
Who is James II?
This thinker argued that government branches should balance one another.
Who is Montesquieu?
This ruler was invited to England by Parliament and became king alongside Mary after James II fled.
Who was William of Orange?
Absolute rulers regulated many aspects of life, including this area, what people worshipped or believed?
What is religion?
The 1598 Edict of Nantes gave these people greater freedom to worship?
Who are Protestants?
These two rulers became joint monarchs after the Glorious Revolution.
Who are William and Mary?
This principle divides government responsibilities among branches to prevent power from resting in one place.
What is separation of powers?
This cardinal was a key figure who advocated for absolute monarchy in France.
Who is Cardinal Richelieu?
Higher taxes under absolute monarchs contributed to these forms of resistance by rural people.
What were peasant revolts?
The 1685 edict required Protestant ministers who would not convert to leave France within this period.
What is a fortnight?
This term describes a government in which a monarch’s power is limited by law, the type of government in England following the Glorious Revolution?
What is a constitutional monarchy?
This thinker proposed that government should protect people’s natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
After Henry IV’s death, this queen mother served as regent for her young son, Louis XIII.
Who is Marie de' Medici?
Absolute monarchs collected these to support their courts and strengthen their military power.
What are taxes?
The Edict of Fontainebleau prohibited private schools for children of this French Protestant group.
Who are the Huguenots?
The Glorious Revolution shifted political supremacy away from the monarchs, and toward this institution.
What is parliament?
This Enlightenment author argued that women’s education and equality matter to society’s progress.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
This term describes a ruler who adopts some Enlightenment ideas while retaining monarchical power; Frederick the Great and Joseph II are study examples.
What is an enlightened despot?
To administer a centralized state, absolute monarchs expanded this system of government offices and officials.
What is a bureaucracy?
What 1572 massacre of French Protestants, beginning in Paris on St. Bartholomew’s Day, intensified the French Wars of Religion?
What is the St. Barholomew's Day Massacre?
In the Glorious Revolution, Parliament invited William of Orange to overthrow James II, and his fleet from here helped make the invasion successful.
What is the Netherlands?
This thinker argued that people could form rules together and punish those who violated the agreed-upon rules.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This French royal official is included among the historical figures studied alongside Louis XIV and Richelieu.
Who was Jean-Baptiste Colbert?
Louis XIV’s spending on warfare and royal display strained this part of France’s national life.
What is the French Economy?