Download or read book War, Domination, and the Monarchy of France written by Rebecca Ard Boone and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude de Seyssel's important political treatise, "The Monarchy of France" (1515) illuminates the link between warfare, the state, and the social order in the Renaissance. In his effort to describe a state capable of conquest and expansion, Seyssel envisioned a new social and political order with radical implications for the French monarchy.