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Section 2: Jean Domat (1625-1696): On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy - English
URL: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/reading/core4-02r05.htm

Jean Domat (1625-1696) was a renowned French jurist in the reign of Louis XIV, the king who perfected the practice of royal absolutism. Domat made it his life's task to explain the theory behind this absolutism by setting French law and social structure into the wider context of the law of nature and the law of God.

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Section 02: Jean Baptiste Colbert: Analysis of French Finances and Efforts to Improve Government Income - English
URL: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/reading/core4-02r03.htm

On the Financial Disorders in France.

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Section 02: The Court of Louis XIV - English
URL: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/reading/core4-02r02.htm

The Duc de Saint-Simon resided for many years at Versailles. He left an account of Life there.

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Avineri: Hegel's Theory of the Modern State - English
URL: http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ot/avineri5.htm

Excerpt from Avineri: Hegel's Theory of the Modern State, chapter 5: Modern life and social reality on alientation.

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Журнал ПОЛИС - Russian
URL: http://www.politstudies.ru/

Периодическое издание российской политической науки.

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Section 2: Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan, Chaps 13-14, 1651 - English
URL: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/reading/core4-02r06.htm

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Section 2: Bishop Bossuet: Politics Taken From the Very Words of Scripture, 1679 - English
URL: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/reading/core4-02r04.htm

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Section 2: Cardinal Richelieu: Political Testament - English
URL: http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/reading/core4-02r01.htm

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