Classiques de la Pensée Politique

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  Étienne DOLET

  De officio legati, De immunitate legatorum, De legationibus Ioannis Langiachi Episcopi Lemovicensis

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  Etienne Dolet's three Latin treatises on diplomacy shed light on sixteenth-century expectations of ambassadors and their functions. Though they must be cultivated, virtuous, peace brokers and loyal to their sovereign, they must also be masters of ...

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  Lancelot Voisin de LA POPELINIÈRE

  Du Contre-Machiavel au Contre-Prince de Machiavel

  Cinq textes manuscrits inédits de la fin du XVIe siècle, suivis de Responce pour l'Histoire (1585)

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  The five texts left us handwritten that La Popelinière devoted to Machiavel, find their place among the controversies brought about by his works – specially Le Prince after the Saint-Barthelemy massacres...

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  Les Louenges du roy Louys XIIe de ce nom (1508)

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  The political philosopher Claude de Seyssel is often overshadowed by his contemporaries, Machiavelli and Thomas More. Nevertheless, his panegyric life of Louis XII offers an original vision of the French monarchy that merits the attention provided ...

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  Carl SCHMITT

  La Valeur de l’Etat et la signification de l’individu

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  In his first essay of political philosophy, La Valeur de l’Etat et la signification de l’individu (1914), Carl Schmitt focuses on the State and its interaction with the law and the individual. This early work, published in French for the first time...

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  François-René de CHATEAUBRIAND

  Ecrits politiques, (1814-1816)

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  The political works of Chateaubriand from 1814 to 1816 are gathered in chronological order in this critical edition. Written during a time of political upheaval, these texts sum up his thought on constitutional monarchy, search for a means of...

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  MONTESQUIEU

  Réflexions sur la Monarchie universelle en Europe

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  Written in the year 1734, Montesquieu's Réflexions sur la Monarchie universelle en Europe express the philosophy of enlightenment which appeared with the publication of the Lettres persanes (1721). This incisive and forgotten text, as Montesquieu...

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  Tommaso CAMPANELLA

  La Cité du Soleil

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  Antoine MONTCHRESTIEN

  Traicté de l’oeconomie politique

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  François Billacois publishes the Traicté de l’œconomie politique in its integrity for the first time since 1615. Written by the baroque poet Montchrestien, it proclaims that the economy is an essential element of the "royal science of...

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  Discours merveilleux de la vie, actions et deportements de Catherine de Médicis, Royne-mère

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  A little time after the Saint-Barthélemy there appeared an audacious and violent pamphlet against Catherine de Médicis, the Queen mother, depicting her as a wicked foreigner, a bad mother, a tyrannical queen, indeed a fury. This has been her image up...

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  Jean CORAS

  Question politique : S’il est licite aux subjects de capituler avec leur prince

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  Written in the middle of the 16th century, Jean de Coras'work is a basic text on relations between the king and his subjects.