1. Identify and explain the historical significance of Camisard War, Discourse on the Confinement of the Poor, War of the Spanish Succession, Blenheim, annuity, rentier, venal mayor, capitation, Regent, John Law, Unigenitus: Latin text, English translation of errors condemned.

2. What were the deomographic catastrophes at the end of Louis XIV's reign? How did the monarchy deal with them?

3. How did the patriarchal nature of the French state manifest itself? Why do "women offer an outstanding example of the legalistic fallacy of absolutism" (156)?

4. What affect did Louis XIV's wars have on the nobility in France?

5. What measures did Louis XIV take to increase revenue in the last decades of his reign? What do these measures tell you about the situation of the French state around the turn of the eighteenth century?

6. Collins writes: "Louis XIV...did more than any other king to undermine the sacral nature of French kingship" (173). What are his reasons for this statement?

7. Identify and explain the historical significance of grand cru, police, lieutenant general of police in Paris, mounted constabulary, the Great Confinement, Philibert Orry, Sisters of the Holy Infant Jesus, Christian Brothers, simultaneous instruction, corvée

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8. Which two factors dramatically changed French society between 1700 and 1750? What effect did the changes have?

9. Collins writes of two Frances coexisting in the eighteenth century. What are these two Frances, both in urban and rural settings? Where were economic and population growth evident? Where were economic and population stagnation evident?

10. How many police officials were active in Paris and in the rest of France? What changes occurred in the eighteenth century with respect to securing public order? Who was most effective in combatting crime?

11. How did the French state deal with the poor? Did it do anything to promote education?

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