Sacral Kingship in Bourbon France: The Cult of Saint Louis, 1589-1830

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Contents
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Acknowledgements
Note on proper names and translations
Abbreviations
	Archives and libraries
	Periodicals
Introduction
	Sacral kingship
	The politics of memory
	Early modern sanctity
	The historiography of the cult of Saint Louis
Chapter 1: Patron and protector of France: Saint Louis and his cult up to 1618
	From Louis IX to Saint Louis
	Henri IV and the establishment of Bourbon legitimacy
	The restoration of the cult in 1618
	Conclusion
2: The saint of kings and the king of saints: Perceptions of Saint Louis, 1618–1715
	Saint Louis in seventeenth-century historiography
	The panegyrics of Saint Louis
	Saint Louis and the crusading ideal
	Conclusion
Chapter 3: Ruling France under the shadow of Saint Louis, 1610–1715
	Saint Louis and Louis the Just
	Saint Louis during the Fronde
	Saint Louis and the Sun King
	Royal devotion to Saint Louis
	Conclusion
Chapter 4: The spread of the cult, 1618–1789
	The feast in Paris
	The feast in the dioceses
	The feast in the provinces
	Dedications across France
	Saint Louis in the French colonies
	Saint Louis in foreign capitals
	Conclusion
Chapter 5: Patterns of devotion
	Relics and miracles
	Liturgy
	A saint for the grands
	Conclusion
Chapter 6: Saint Louis in the age of Enlightenment and Revolution, 1715–92
	Patron of the monarchy
	The legislator king
	Controversial crusades
	The decline and fall of Saint Louis
	Conclusion
Chapter 7: Saint Louis from exile to restoration, 1792–18301
	A counter-revolutionary saint
	Saint Louis and the Charte
	The feast of Saint-Louis during the Restoration
	Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Conclusion
Bibliography
	Manuscripts
	Primary sources printed before 1830
	Primary sources printed after 1830
	Secondary sources
	Theses
Index