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‘속은 자의 날’을 어떻게 볼 것인가?-프랑스 절대왕정의 문제적 ‘근대성’-

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2011, (25), pp.29~57
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

임승휘 1

1선문대학교

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ABSTRACT

The recent research about the structure of French absolute monarchy and the demythicization of the bureaucracy has shattered the older conception of the absoluteness of absolutist rule. The King asserted his legal right, legibus solutus, but the power of domination was parcelled out by the different forces. The financial system was subject to the particular and private interests of the nobles and the office-holders who have constituted a social and political power group by the cliental relationship. The administrative centralization was limited by the confusion between public power and private appropriation. This situation entrapped the development of the modern bureaucracy and the king’s political autonomy in spite of his sacred character. But this structure has not been created at one sitting, but built slowly during three Bourbon kings in the seventeenth century. It was also the result of the successive failure of the attempts of reformation. The realistic policy of the Reason of State and the separation of politic and religion, materialized by the cardinal Richelieu was far from the political modernity and his ‘Reason of State’ was in reality ‘Unreason of State’. It has compounded the problematic structure of the French absolute monarchy. It is in this sense that the Day of Dupes was pregnant. In this perspective, Marillac’s politic of reformation against the european war can be seen as a sound alternative for the absolute monarchy. In spite of the limits of his reformation project, his diagnostic of the political system of the State and his politic of unification, rejecting the particularism, prove his political realism. The importance of that Day resides not only in the establishment of the cardinal’s Reason of State, but also in the disappeared possibility of the reformation which might minimize the weakness of that structure and permit the ‘proper function’ of the absolute monarchy. The mockery of the Code Michau because of its unrealism and the violent opposition of the ‘parlement’ prove paradoxically the realism of Marillac’s politic which might lead to an ‘modernity’ of the royal State.

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