Thursday, September 25, 2014

Homework for Monday, September 29

  
Read the Accounts of Louis XIV.

Answer:
Saint-Simon's Portrait of Louis XIV
What positive attributes does Saint-Simon use to describe Louis XIV?
What negative attributes does he describe?
Do you think he respected and liked Louis XIV?
How does this description compare to the description of a true nobleman by Castiglione? Provide two specific examples. 
Madame de Sevigne's Portrait of Louis and his Court
What happens in this account?
What does this story tell us about the pressures felt by the nobility?
What does this story tell us about the lives of the nobles during the reign of Louis XIV?
**Plan to turn this homework in for a grade.**

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