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The House de Sébeville - in the Service of the French Kings from Louis XI to Louis XIV

Autoři: Zouhar Adamčiková Anna

Rok: 2024

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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eng	The House de Sébeville - in the Service of the French Kings from Louis XI to Louis XIV	The paper deals with the presentation of a little-known French noble family, originally perhaps from Normandy. Its origins can be traced back to the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, when it became part of the local aristocracy. The first mentions of the family, although not completely reliably verifiable, were traced by historians as early as the 14th century. Because the family was loyal to the French kings from the beginning, its members climbed the imaginary steps of the social ladder in the early modern period. The first Marquis de Sébeville was Francois Cadot, Baron de Brucourt, seigneur d'Écoquenéauville, de Boutteville et de Saint-Fromond (1619–1703). He had ten children, the eldest of whom was Bernardin Cadot (or Kadot, 1641–1711), the main character of our text, who from 1664 on performed diplomatic tasks in the service of the Sun King. He became a high officer, a general, and finally ended his career as an extraordinary envoy of Louis XIV at the imperial court in Vienna in 1681–1684. Using his example, the post shows how the nobility functioned, or rather was forced to function, in 17th-century France. Individual careers here combined personal ambitions, personal assumptions and aptitudes with the demands of an absolutist monarch, who, as is known, obliged and directly bound the nobility with various functions, ranks and more or less important tasks "in the interest of the state". The chosen example demonstrates that the nobility, consisting of individuals, formed a specific world at the time of the Sun King in France, a special section of French society at that time, approximately one percent of it, which was governed by special rules and rituals. If this was true in general, the more it can be said of the diplomatic service.	France; aristocracy; Sébeville; Normandy