Section 2: Jean Domat (1625-1696): On Social Order and Absolute Monarchy 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. [eng]