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

Midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue. The author demonstrates how this attack on sin expressed the punitive social policy of the French Catholic Reformation and how Louis's actions clarified the legal and moral distinctions between crime and sin.

DOI: 10.1336/0313317089 Mouse over the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to learn more about this book or related books published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Visit the Greenwood Publishing Group page for this title: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GM1708.aspx

A Lust for Virtue: Louis XIV's Attack on Sin in Seventeenth-Century France Series: Contributions to the Study of World History Hardback, 224 pages, $131.95 Copyright ©2001, Greenwood Press ISBN: 0-313-31708-9 DOI: 10.1336/0313317089

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