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The Political Theory of French Protestant Monarchomachs (1572-1584)

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2006, (15), pp.5~28
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

LIM Seung Hwi 1

1선문대학교

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ABSTRACT

The french Monarchomach triumvirs, François Hotman, Duplessis- Mornay, Théodore de Bèze, appeared after the massacre of St Bartholomew; but their polemical orientation had been prepared by the precedent steps. Their treaties have common characters: popular sovereignty, important duty of the General Estates, theory of the contract and the conditional obeisance. The doctrines, stemmed by antique and medieval political ideas, became for the first time in European history, a compact and coherent ‘ideology’. In spite of the political originality, monarchomachs were not the democrats before the letter. When they refered the people, it didn’t mean the people-mass with the public power, but the elective minority in the society of orders, precisely the nobles. If there is a new factor in their theory, it would be the question of who may resist to the tyrant, and the question of the sovereignty of the state, separated from the person prince-sovereign.

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