• François Bluche (17 September 1925 – 28 June 2018) was a French historian. He painted a largely positive portrait of Louis XIV in his biography, attributing...
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    smallest noble classes in Europe. For the year 1789, French historian François Bluche gives a figure of 140,000 nobles (9,000 noble families) and states...
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    institutions while the monarchy was still secure. Others, including François Bluche, argue that Louis XIV cannot be held responsible for problems that...
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  • Revolution and the First Empire. Born in 1950, Bluche was the son of fellow historian François Bluche, with whom he shared the "same passion for history"...
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    ISBN 978-0-1431-1389-8. Bluche, François (1986). Louis XIV (in French). Paris: Hachette Littératures. ISBN 978-2-0101-3174-5. Bluche, François (1990). Louis XIV...
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    Libraires associés, 1737. Jean-François Solnon, art. « Maison du roi », Dictionnaire du Grand Siècle, s. dir, François Bluche, Fayard, 1990. Louis Susane...
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    Chancellor of France from 5 September 1699 to 1 July 1714. Historian François Bluche wrote that "he gave the Chancellor's office an importance and authority...
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    Jules Guiffrey, Paris, Académie des bibliophiles, 1869 (in French) François Bluche, Dictionnaire du Grand Siècle, Paris, 1990, p. 91 (in French) Sophie...
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     XI-207.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) François Bluche (1966). Les Pages de la Grande Écurie (3rd ed.). Paris: Les Cahiers...
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    journées de septembre, 1792". Baudouin frères. 5 July 1823. F. Bluche, p. 193 F. Bluche, p. 454 Histoire des Girondins et des massacres de septembre d'après...
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