See also
* Early Modern France * Mansfield, Andrew, "The Burgundy Circle's plans to undermine Louis XIV's “absolute” state through polysynody and the high nobility", 'Intellectual History Review', Vol.27, Issue 2 (2017), pp.223-45 - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17496977.2016.1156346 Government of France Political history of the Ancien Régime