Readings about Peter the Great and Louis XIV
These documents are all on the same webpage, but you only have to read the one you are assigned below.
Stephen: Bishop Burnet, Peter the Great 1698
Noah: Von Korb, Diary 1698-99
Jack: General Alexander Gordon, History of Peter the Great 1718
Neel: Jean Rousset de Missy, Life of Peter the Great, c. 1730
Lauren: Duc de Saint-Simon: The Court of Louis XIV, "The Court"
Victor: Duc de Saint-Simon: The Court of Louis XIV, "Life at Versailles"
*As you read these documents, think about what they say about the absolutism of each monarch.
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