Political Culture in Louis XIV's Canada: Majesty, Ritual, and Rhetoric

by Colin M. Coates

In Louis XIV's New France, colonial authorities attempted to reproduce French regal authority in novel ways, often by performing typical metropolitan political rituals. When these practices were transposed into the St Lawrence Valley settlements, where a small French population lived alongside a substantial Indigenous presence, they took on new meanings. The colony of Canada replicated many features of the developing French absolutist state. Yet while...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228022363
• ISBN13: 9780228022367
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.