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        | held commission to perform specific tasks often financial but also judicial and policing transmitted information from local communities to Paris and delivered royal orders from capital to their generalites |  | 
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        | where Maximilien de Bethune was from he was the duke |  | 
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        | annual fee paid by officials to guarantee heredity in their offices |  | 
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        | means slingshot or catapult Mazarin attempts to increase royal revenues led to civil wars known as Fronde |  | 
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        | weakened power of nobles wanted to weaken Hapsburgs who surrounded France |  | 
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        | Richelieu’s generalites |  | Definition 
 
        | France divided into32 generalites in which intendants held specific task (districts) |  | 
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        | began the preparation of dictionary to standardize the French language official group of philologists who were interested in grammar and rhetoric |  | 
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        | sun king devout catholic believed god had established kings as his rulers on earth |  | 
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        | Louis XIV established royal court there |  | 
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        | comedies illustrate classicism in French theater |  | 
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        | tragedies illustrate classicism in French theater |  | 
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        | Nicholas generally considered finest example of French classicist painting |  | 
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        | Phillip left several kingdoms to him able administrator he believed that the solution to Spain’s difficulties rested in a return to imperial tradition |  | 
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        | council in France Louis got rid of because he wanted full power |  | 
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        | joint stock company formed by a group of regents of Holland |  | 
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        | represented balance of power principle in operation setting limits on the extent to which any one power |  | 
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        | council of 5 to serve as both his major advisers and as members of the Parliament |  | 
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        | council of 5 to serve as both his major advisers and as members of the Parliament |  | 
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        | gave all Christians except roman Catholics right o practice faith |  | 
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        | they believed reformation had not gone far enough in the church of England |  | 
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        | controlled army religious tolerance for all except Catholics censored press and closed theaters regulated economy according to mercantilist principles |  | 
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        | violated test by not giving government and university jobs to Catholics fear of catholic monarchy led to expulsion of him |  | 
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        | duke of Marlborough defeated Louis in 1704 in Blenheim in Bavaria |  | 
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        | ended up handing government to lazy duke of Lerma |  | 
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