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introduction 1. Adémar de Monteil comte de Grignan to [?], 1 November 1614, BNF, Clairambault 1131, f° 252–253. 2. Pierre II Fabry de Roqueyrolz, “Mémoire concernant les Rlgres de la province de Languedoc,” AN, TT 430, f° 34. 3. Gaches, Suite des mémoires, 17. 4. Jouanna, L’Idée de race en France, 1: 326–332. 5. Laval, Desseins de professions nobles et publiques, 19–20, 25–37. 6. Billon, Les Principes de l’art militaire; Drévillon, L’Impôt du sang, 275–296, 321–351. 7. François de Bonne duc de Lesdiguières, “Discours de l’art militaire,” in ACL, 2: 542–543. 8. Souhait, Le Parfaict gentil-homme; Pelletier, La Nourriture de la noblesse; Loyseau, Traité des seigneuries; Faret, L’Honneste-homme. And see analysis of such treatises in Dewald , Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture, 45–68, 104–145. 9. Arnauld, Presentation de Monsieur de Montmorency en l’office d’Admiral de France. 10. Anne de Lévis duc de Ventadour to M. Castillon, Paris, August 1608, BNF, Mss. fr. 3602, f° 48. 11. Nicot, Thresor de la Langue Francoyse, 165. 12. Henri I de Montmorency duc de Montmorency to Marie de Médicis, La Grange, 20 March 1614, BNF, Clairambault 1131, f° 188. 13. Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, and Sherry B. Ortner, “Introduction,” and Sherry B. Ortner, “Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties,” in Culture/Power/History, ed. Dirks et al., 3–6, 372–411; Certeau, L’Invention du quotidian. 14. BNF, Dupuy 100, f° 109. 15. Jouanna, “Des réseaux d’amitié aux clientèles centralisées,” 21–38. 16. Recit tres-veritable. 17. AN, TT 430, f° 22. 18. CSV, 172; François I Esparbès de Lussan marquis d’Aubeterre to Paul Phélypeaux seigneur de Pontchartrain, Agen, 12 November 1615, BNF, Clairambault 366, f° 24–25. 19. Harangue faicte au Roy, par messieurs de Montpellier. 20. Reglement pour les gens de guerre. Notes 296 n o t e s t o p a g e s x x i – x x v i 21. Du Cros, 16–17. 22. Discours de la Confidence. 23. “Abbregé des exploitz de guerre de deffunct monseigneur le maral de Praslin faict par luy mesme,” BNF, Mss. fr. 15616; Immortalité du carrousel de Monseigneur d’Espernon. 24. La Prise et reduction de la ville et chasteau de Nerac. 25. Jouanna, Le Devoir de révolte, 384–388. 26. Nicolas de Verdun, premier président du parlement de Toulouse, to Henri IV, Toulouse, 14 September 1604, BNF, Mss. fr. 23198, f° 183–186. 27. Jouanna, Le Devoir de révolte, 368–390. 28. Sandberg, “‘Se couvrant toujours . . . du nom du roi,’” 423–440. 29. Biron, Letters and Documents, 1: 59–64. 30. Lynn, “Evolution of Army Style,” 505–545. 31. François Duval, Mémoires, 169. 32. Dewald, Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture; Neuschel, Word of Honor; Schalk, From Valor to Pedigree; Constant, La Noblesse française aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. 33. Le Person, “Practiques” et “Practiqueurs”; Le Roux, La Faveur du roi; Jouanna, Le Devoir de révolte; Kettering, Patrons, Brokers, and Clients in Seventeenth-Century France. 34. Carroll, Blood and Violence in Early Modern France; Brioist et al., Croiser le fer; Billacois , Le Duel. 35. Elias, Civilizing Process and Court Society. 36. Carroll, Blood and Violence in Early Modern France. 37. Schalk, “The Court as ‘Civilizer’ of the Nobility.” 38. Asch, Nobilities in Transition; Lukowski, European Nobility in the Eighteenth Century ; Dewald, European Nobility; Scott, ed., European Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 39. Lublinskaya, French Absolutism, 1–3. David Parker, Making of French Absolutism, 59–60, concurs, calling the 1620s “perhaps the most crucial phase in the enormously protracted but progressive extension of royal authority.” 40. Nicholas B. Dirks, “Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact,” in Culture/Power/History, ed. Dirks et al., 483–503; Ortner, “Theory in Anthropology,” ibid., 388–403. 41. Michel de Certeau uses the concept of la perruque, “the wig,” to explain a myriad of techniques that subjects can use to divert, reroute, and misappropriate—especially referring to “the worker’s own work disguised as work for his employer.” This translation comes from Certeau, The Practices of Everyday Life, trans. Steven Rendall, 25. On the concept of la perruque, see Certeau, L’Invention du quotidian, xxxv–liii, 43–49, 239–255. 42. Beik, “Absolutism of Louis XIV,” 195–224; Henshall, Myth of...

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