05914oam 2200709 a 450 991097111290332120200520144314.097984006809849780313001062031300106510.5040/9798400680984(CKB)111056485490566(OCoLC)614705149(CaPaEBR)ebrary10020816(SSID)ssj0000194900(PQKBManifestationID)11175272(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194900(PQKBWorkID)10243560(PQKB)11305318(Au-PeEL)EBL3000708(CaPaEBR)ebr10020816(OCoLC)50321974(MiAaPQ)EBC3000708(OCoLC)1435635635(DLC)BP9798400680984BC(Perlego)4202176(EXLCZ)9911105648549056620001211e20012024 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrA lust for virtue Louis XIV's attack on sin in seventeenth-century France /Philip F. Riley1st ed.Westport, Conn. :Praeger,2001.London :Bloomsbury Publishing,20241 online resource (221 p.) Contributions to the study of world history,0885-9159 ;no. 88Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780313317088 0313317089 Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-191) and index.Cover -- A LUST FOR VIRTUE -- CONTENTS -- Copyright Acknowledgments -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTES -- 1 A LUST FOR VIRTUE -- CORRUPTION, CRIME AND SIN -- KINGLY VIRTUE -- QUEEN ANNE -- CARDINAL MAZARIN -- MORAL TUTORS -- THE FRONDE -- NOTES -- 2 WATCHDOG OF PARISIAN SIN -- MURDER -- A NEW MAGISTRATE -- NEIGHBORHOOD POLICE -- THE GREAT CONFINEMENT -- APOLLO'S POLICE -- SINFUL PARIS -- OCCASIONS OF SIN -- ASYLUMS OF VIRTUE -- PRIVATE PRISONS -- SAINT-LAZARE -- A NEW MODEL? -- BON PASTEUR -- THE HÔPITAL-GÉNÉRAL -- NOTES -- 3 SOLDIERS OF SATAN -- LAW -- LUST -- FEMALE CONFESSION -- PROSTITUTION -- LES GRANDES HORIZONTALES -- LOWBORN WOMEN -- "BLACK ARTS" -- ABORTION, INFANTICIDE, AND SODOMY -- CORRUPTING PRIESTS -- DOMESTIC PROBLEMS -- NOTES -- 4 ADULTERY MOST ROYAL -- ANNE OF AUSTRIA -- ADULTERY -- LOUISE DE LA VALLIÈRE -- MME DE MONTESPAN -- BOSSUET AND LA CHAISE -- PHILANDERINGS -- POISON -- MISTRESS OF VIRTUE -- MORAL RIGOR -- GOD'S INSTRUMENT -- A NEW ESTHER? -- NOTES -- 5 SAFEGUARDING SOULS -- CLERICAL SCANDAL -- PRIESTS WHO SIN -- THE REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES -- GALLEY SLAVES -- NEW CONVERTS -- SURVEILLANCE -- BLASPHEMY -- SACRILEGE -- KEEPING HOLY THE SABBATH -- SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN'S SOULS -- MARRIAGE -- NOTES -- 6 COURTLY SIN -- COURT SPYING -- ENNUI -- BOURBON SIN -- DUKE AND DUCHESS OF ORLÉANS -- SACRED LITURGY AT COURT -- THEATER -- END OF THE REIGN -- NOTES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- UNPUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES -- Archives Nationales -- Archives de la Préfecture de Police -- Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal -- Bibliothèque Nationale -- PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- INDEX -- About the Author.Midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue. The author demonstrates how this attack on sin expressed the punitive social policy of the French Catholic Reformation and how Louis's actions clarified the legal and moral distinctions between crime and sin. As a hot-blooded young prince, Louis XIV paid little attention to virtue or to sin and, despite his cherished title of God's Most Christian King, violations of God's Sixth and Ninth Commandments never troubled him. Indeed, for the first two decades of his reign, he paraded a stream of royal mistresses before all of Europe and fathered sixteen illegitimate children. Yet, midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue. Using police and prison archives, administrative correspondence, memoirs, and letters, Riley describes the formation of Louis's narrow conscience and his efforts to safeguard his subjects' souls by attacking sin and infusing his kingdom with virtue, especially in Paris and at Versailles. Throughout his attack on sin, women--so-called Soldiers of Satan--were the special targets of the police. By the seventeenth century, fornication and adultery had become exclusively female crimes; men guilty of these sins were rarely punished as severely. Although unsuccessful, Louis's attack on sin clarified the legal and moral distinctions between crime and sin as well as the futility of enforcing a religiously inspired social policy on an irreverent, secular-minded France. Contributions to the study of world history ;no. 88.Church and stateFranceHistory17th centurySinChristianityHistory of doctrines17th centuryCounter-ReformationFranceFranceMoral conditionsHistory17th centuryChurch and stateHistorySinChristianityHistory of doctrinesCounter-Reformation944/.033Riley Philip F174906DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910971112903321A lust for virtue4341456UNINA