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A43118	The politicks of France by Monsieur P.H. ... ; with Reflections on the 4th and 5th chapters, wherein he censures the Roman clergy and the Hugonots, by the Sr. l'Ormegreny.; Traitté de la politique de France. English	Du Chastelet, Paul Hay, marquis, b. ca. 1630.; Du Moulin, Peter, 1601-1684. Reflections on the fourth chapter of The politicks of France.	1691 (1691)	Wing H1202B; ESTC R40961	133,878	266

confers them as a distribution made to His Creatures and that He may cause them by sensible means to experiment His Goodness The Magnificence of a Man renders him considerable if his Spirit in it be Great and Heroick But it is not enough to have spoken of that which constitutes Felicity we must take some account of the means which conduce unto it Nature Constancy and Reason do contribute to endue us with Virtue The two former do enrich the Mind and dispose it to receive Virtue then Reason being cleared by the light of Precepts makes it spring up and cultivates it Of all Precepts those of greatest efficacy are the Political which being indeed Laws do command and oblige Men to obey in a manner blindly necessitating and constraining us to live well whether we will or no. 'T is upon this ground it hath been said That there lies no servitude at all in submitting to the power of the Law and that it 's the proper act of Men truly free to reduce their inclinations and subject their practice to the same Forasmuch as the conforming of Life and Manners to the impulses of Virtue which is always right always uncorrupt is in truth a setting our our selves at full liberty and an enfranchisement from the Empire of importunate and irregular Passions But of these general Theses enough It is time at length to enter upon the subject which occasion'd my taking up the design of this present Treatise CHAP. III. 1. Of the French Monarchy 2. Of the Situation and Quality of France 3. Of the Nature of the French THE Monarchick Government doth not more excell other Governments than the French Monarchy doth all other Monarchies on Earth It is hereditary and for Twelve whole Ages there hath been seen Reigning from Male to Male upon the Throne of France the August Posterity of Meroue of Charlemagne and of Hugh Capet For it is exactly proved that these three Races of our Kings are Branches issued out of the same Stock This very Succession so Legitimate as it hath been and so long continued makes at present the surest foundation of the welfare of the State and carries in it Splendor Reputation and Majesty Indeed to how many Ills are Elective Kingdoms exposed How many Cabals How many Complottings and in truth Wars are kept on foot by so many different agitations The one and the other Roman Empire and the Kingdom of the Poles do administer sensible proofs of this Opinion If the Spartans heretofore did draw so great an advantage from the Honour they had to be commanded by Princes of the Blood of Hercules The French have far greater cause to glory since in the Catalogue of His Majesties triumphant Ancestors there may be counted an hundred Heroes greater than Hercules himself Is there a Monarch in the World whose just power is more absolute than that of our King and by consequent is there a Monarchy comparable to the French Monarchy It is necessary that the power of a good King be not confin'd within other bounds than Reason and Equity do prescribe otherwise there will ever be division between Princes and People to the ruin of them both What a disorder would it be in Man if the Eye or Hand should fail of following the impulses of the Soul this disobeying and rebellious Member would prove dead or seized with a Palsie If then the whole Body should fall into an universal revolt against the Spirit of Man all the Symmetry the Order and oeconomy would be utterly defaced Thus the Subjects in a Monarchy once ceasing to yield their King a full Obedience and the King ceasing to exercise His Soveraign Authority over them the Political Ligatures are broken the Government is dissolved by little and little all is reduced to extream calamities and oft-times to Anarchy and an annihilation Such are the inconveniencies that occur in Royalties of the Lacedemonian kind where the Prince hath but a limited Authority and if all that England suffer'd in the late times were pourtray'd here it would be easie to observe of what importance it is unto the felicity of a Monarchy that the Prince do in it command without restriction In fine the obedience of instrumental parts as those of Organical Bodies and the Subjects of a State is of so indispensible a necessity that the common good and conservation of that Whole which they compose depends upon it In Democracies even the most tumultuous and disorderly all must bow under the Will of the multitude though blind ignorant and seduced in like manner the parts of the Bodies of Brutes must act by their motions though they be in rage and madness And the reason of this necessity is that the Body and the Soul which is the form thereof are but one indivisible Whole so a King and Subjects are together but one whole that is one State In fine the French Monarchy is accompanied with all the mixture that can be desired for a compleat and perfect Government The Counsellors of State do compose an excellent Oligarchy in it The Parliaments and other Officers of Judicature do form an Aristocracy The Provosts of Merchants the Mayors the Consuls and the General Estates do represent rarely well limited Democracy so that all the different modes of governing by Laws being united in the Monarchy do render it as excellent and consummate as Reason can propose The Regality of France is therefore of the Oeconomick kind in which the King hath an absolute power in his State as the Father of a Family in his House and though he govern at His pleasure and without contradiction it is always for the good of His Kingdom even as the Master of an House does Rule it with an entire Authority and incessantly provides for the accommodating of this Family There is nothing Despotical nor Barbarous in France as in the States of the Moscovites and Turks In short our Laws are Holy and Equitable to a greater degree than in any Common-wealth that ever was and they are conceived with so much prudence and judgement that they are apt to make the People happy in the gentle times of Peace and enable them to triumph in the occasions of War The Situation and Compactness of France are known to all the World so that it would be a needless labour should I here expatiate to shew the Beauty and Richness of our Grounds and of our Rivers or declare how we abound in Wine in Corn in Silk in Wools in Cloth in Wood in Cattle in Salt in Mines and in Money how necessary we are to our neighbours and to what degree we may forego their Succors and their Merchandise I might justly be accus'd of a fondness for superfluous Discourse if I should particularly consider all these great advantages and as much if I should speak of the pureness of the Air and the incredible number of Inhabitants the most ignorant having a full and an assured knowledge of ' em I shall only say that it need not

bearing both the Shield and Thunder-bolt of Jupiter her Father do therein let us know that the Wisdom of a good King ought to serve Him both for Peace and War And such was the manner of teaching in deepest and most remote Antiquity Philosophy then but growing up and bashful durst not shew her full lustre unto deprav'd and ignorant men to whom She was yet very much a Stranger She accosted them veiled with the shadows of Fable and went softly and secretly about the preparing of their reason to receive her illuminations and instructions But to return to our similitude A Storm doth not reach to the whole extent of the Ocean and whatever Tumults be in some part of a Kingdom yet the whole doth not so feel the shock of War but that in others Peace subsists so as the Glory of Arms and the Contentments of a full Tranquility may be had together Nevertheless since these two different times do require like different cares each of which were enough to take up the whole application of an excellent King it is expedient to consider them severally Peace is undoubtedly proper for the Cultivation of Arts and Sciences Knowing Men there must be in a Common-wealth it being necessary that there should be good Men. For knowledge 't is that enlightens our Soul shews us Virtue and inflames us with desire to possess it I joyn Sciences here and Arts it being impossible that Men should have the one without the other For as they are Images of GOD they are mov'd by a natural propension to produce one thing or other so that having acquired general Speculative Principles they necessarily descend to Practical operations which are perform'd by particular Rules from whence Arts take their rise This is done during a Calm then the Soul not interrupted by any violent agitation enjoys and by reflections which by its leisure and repose permit it to make views its self 'T is in these precious hours that it may come to know the Dignity of its Original and be assured of its Immortality At such a time having and keeping its faculties united it gathers the fruit of a solid Wisdom which is unto the Soul as the Sun is to the Eyes of the body and being of all goods the greatest communicates its self in precepts whereof Law is the abstract and consummation giving the same spirit to all the People To proceed it is important that Cities be enrich'd with publick Buildings as Temples Palaces and other sumptuous Edifices because People have by that means the more affection for their Country The Trojans regretting their defeat were griev'd more for the ruine of Troy than the subversion of its Empire And the Jews in Babylon lamented the demolishing of the Temple where they had offered their sacrifices more than they did the loss of their Liberty This affection of People for their Country is likewise augmented by the contentment they receive in it and this Maxim was a principal reason why the Greeks and Romans exhibited to their Subjects publick shews 'T is in a time of Peace that a Prince should prepare His Forces for War yea He ought to be always in Arms they being the Ornament of His Royal Majesty and support of the Laws A People not armed does degenerate and we see that Nations heretofore eminently redoubtable are now bankrupt as to Valour and Reputation Croesus after his defeat counselled Cyrus His Conqueror in recompence for the Favour which had been shewed him to disarm the Lydians and promote among them Musick good Cheer and Pleasures so they would never revolt nor fail of obeying His Command This Counsel of Croesus was really good For by that means the Inhabitants of Lydia lost their former love for War and forgat their ancient virtue Yet it is not expedient that Arms which are the Kings for He hath the power of the Sword should be in the hands of all private Persons alike and the difference between a Citizen and a Gentleman a Soldier and a Country-Labourer not be discern'd Arms therefore must be in their hands whom the King intends for that employment and He being every ones Protector securing all by His Authority all others must be expresly forbidden to bear any without His permission upon pretence of Hunting or Journey or Enemies and this upon pain of being Fined and in case of reiterated Offence sent to the Gallies These Penalties too must not be meerly comminatory but as they term it Legal and of indispensible necessity Not that Gentlemen should all be depriv'd of the liberty to wear a Sword on the contrary 't is fit to be injoyn'd them that they never neglect to do it because it is the mark of their Quality and continually minds them of the Virtue of their Ancestors It may be prohibited them to carry Fire-arms yet 't is convenient to permit them to keep in their Houses Musquers Fire-locks Pistols and other Arms for that they naturally are Defenders of the State and by consequence ought to be furnish'd for any occasion that may be offered For the same reason 't is meet that Gentlemen be enjoyn'd to keep their Stables stor'd with good Horses to breed up and manage a number of them for their Service in War But to this end the use of German Horses for the Coach must be forbidden and none of them suffered to come into France but Mares only for breed Lawyers Ecclesiasticks Citizens Merchants Artificers Husbandmen should never wear a Sword because 't is not their Profession and I would as much approve a Gentleman's fancying to wear a Lawyers Gown or a Priests Cassock But that no such person do abuse this Honourable mark it must be ordained as a fundamental Law of Honour that whoever strikes with a Sword a Man who not being of such profession has none shall be declared actually fallen from all Honour and as a very Plebeian yea Villain to use the old word deprav'd from all Gentility and reduc'd to the rank of a Labourer Since Arms are the Kings as I said it is expedient that there be Magazines in divers parts of the Kingdom they committed to the custody of safe Hands and persons of unquestionable Fidelity in them a store of all sorts of Arms Offensive and Defensive ready fix'd to Arm 40000 Men. There should be Equipage for Horses Boots Spurrs One of these Magazines should be plac'd at Paris to cover Picardy Champagne and Normandy One at Lion for any occasion that might happen on the side of the Mediterranean of Italy of Swisserland or the Franche Comte One at Tholouse or some other City of Languedoc for all that might be apprehended from Spain or the Sea of Guyenne And one at Anger 's to secure the Coasts of Bretagne and Poictou There need be beside these two Arsenals for the Sea which I shall speak of in their place It will be necessary to have in the Magazines a good number of Cannon for Battery and of Field-pieces ready mounted with Powder Ball