A Lust for Virtue : Louis XIV's Attack on Sin in Seventeenth-Century France.

Cover -- A LUST FOR VIRTUE -- CONTENTS -- Copyright Acknowledgments -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTES -- 1 A LUST FOR VIRTUE -- CORRUPTION, CRIME AND SIN -- KINGLY VIRTUE -- QUEEN ANNE -- CARDINAL MAZARIN -- MORAL TUTORS -- THE FRONDE -- NOTES -- 2 WATCHDOG OF PARISIAN SIN -- MURDER -- A NEW MAGISTRATE -- NEIGHBORHOOD POLICE -- THE GREAT CONFINEMENT -- APOLLO'S POLICE -- SINFUL PARIS -- OCCASIONS OF SIN -- ASYLUMS OF VIRTUE -- PRIVATE PRISONS -- SAINT-LAZARE -- A NEW MODEL? -- BON PASTEUR -- THE HÔPITAL-GÉNÉRAL -- NOTES -- 3 SOLDIERS OF SATAN -- LAW -- LUST -- FEMALE CONFESSION -- PROSTITUTION -- LES GRANDES HORIZONTALES -- LOWBORN WOMEN -- "BLACK ARTS" -- ABORTION, INFANTICIDE, AND SODOMY -- CORRUPTING PRIESTS -- DOMESTIC PROBLEMS -- NOTES -- 4 ADULTERY MOST ROYAL -- ANNE OF AUSTRIA -- ADULTERY -- LOUISE DE LA VALLIÈRE -- MME DE MONTESPAN -- BOSSUET AND LA CHAISE -- PHILANDERINGS -- POISON -- MISTRESS OF VIRTUE -- MORAL RIGOR -- GOD'S INSTRUMENT -- A NEW ESTHER? -- NOTES -- 5 SAFEGUARDING SOULS -- CLERICAL SCANDAL -- PRIESTS WHO SIN -- THE REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES -- GALLEY SLAVES -- NEW CONVERTS -- SURVEILLANCE -- BLASPHEMY -- SACRILEGE -- KEEPING HOLY THE SABBATH -- SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN'S SOULS -- MARRIAGE -- NOTES -- 6 COURTLY SIN -- COURT SPYING -- ENNUI -- BOURBON SIN -- DUKE AND DUCHESS OF ORLÉANS -- SACRED LITURGY AT COURT -- THEATER -- END OF THE REIGN -- NOTES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- UNPUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES -- Archives Nationales -- Archives de la Préfecture de Police -- Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal -- Bibliothèque Nationale -- PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY SOURCES -- INDEX -- About the Author.

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