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3. The Legend of Sully

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

D. J. Buisseret
D. J. Buisseret
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Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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The Historical Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 1962 , pp. 181 - 188
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1 Listed by Pfister, Christian in his article on ‘Les Economies Royales de Sully’, Revue Historique, LIV (1894), 302–3.Google Scholar

2 Remarques sur les Memoires…de Sully, ed. Michaud, and Poujoulat, (Paris, 1837), 84.Google Scholar

3 See his Histoire du Roy Henry le Grand (Amsterdam, 1661).Google Scholar

4 See Le Détail de la France sous le règne present (1707).

5 See the Collection des Principaux Economistes, ed. Daire, Eugène (Paris, 1851), II, 264.Google Scholar

6 Op. cit. 39.

7 Principes économiques de Louis XIII et du cardinal d'Amboise (1785), 3.

8 See the Economies Royales (his oddly-titled memoirs), ed. Michaud, and Poujoulat, (Paris, 1837), II, 466.Google Scholar

9 Eloge de Sully, p. 79, n. 38.

10 Except sometimes the disillusioned letter which he wrote to Cardinal Duperron on 20 March 1611 (see the Revue Historique, LIV, 1894, 304)Google Scholar. But that was written in the first shock of his disgrace.

11 Détail de la France…, 172–3.

12 Eloge de Sully, 3.

13 Principes économiques…, 4–5.

14 Preface, p. vii.

15 Mémoires et Journal inédit du marquis d'Argenson, ed. d'Argenson, (Paris, 1857), 148–9.Google Scholar

16 Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres… (Paris 1754), XXI, 541–58.Google Scholar He also worked out a ‘Confrontation des deux textes de M. de Sully’, which is preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale under Manuscrit Français 13757.

17 Recherches et Considérations sur les finances de France, 1593–1721 (Basle, 1758), I, 292.Google Scholar

18 Cf. also the quotation from Boisguillebert, p. 182.

19 Eloge de Sully, 50.

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21 See the Réponse de Jean Bodin à M. de Malestrott, 1568 (ed. Hauser, Henri, Paris, 1932), 34–6Google Scholar, ‘(Dieu)…a tellement départi ses graces, qu'il n'y a pays au monde si plantureux, qu'il n'aie faute de beaucoup de choses…’, and a little further on, the author presses for wiser exploitation of France's ‘sources vives de blé, vin et sel’, for foreigners cannot live without the latter and buy it even when the price is trebled.

22 I, 598.

23 On this whole question see Usher, Abbott Payson, The History of the Grain Trade in France, 1400–1700 (Harvard, 1913).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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25 Mazarelli, Mlle, Eloge de Sully… (Paris, 1764), 4.Google Scholar

26 I have omitted the Grand Design, the original of all European peace projects, because its development in the Economies Royales did not suffer the kind of historical distortion with which this article is concerned. Moreover, numerous discussions of it are available in English (see SirButler, Geoffrey, Studies in Statecraft, Cambridge, 1920Google Scholar; Ogg, David, Sully's Grand Design of Henri IV, London, 1921Google Scholar, in the ‘Grotius Society Publications’; and SirMarriott, John A. R., Commonwealth or Anarchy?, London, 1937).Google Scholar

27 Op. cit. 19.

28 Eloge de Sully, 53.

29 Of the ‘éloge’ by Thomas, the Correspondance litteraire…par Grimm…etc., ed. Tourneux, Maurice (Paris, 1878), v, 390Google Scholar, claims: ‘Ce discours a eu un grand succès. Il a eu les suffrages du peuple éclairé, et même ceux du peuple. C'est peut-être le premier discours académique qui ait fait un effet si grand et si général.…’

30 Paris, 1766. The plot closely follows that of Sedaine's Roi et Fermier, Collé's innovation being the introduction of the names of Henri IV and of Sully. For as he remarks in the Avertissement, ‘Les noms de Henri IV et de Sully, sont si chers à la Nation, qu'un Auteur peut presque se flatter de la réussite d'un Ouvrage, dans lequel il a le bonheur de rappeller la mémoire adorée de ce grand Roi, et de ce digne Ministre…’.

31 La Partie de Chasse de Henri IV, 60.

32 Quoted by Pingaud, L. in his article on ‘Henri IV et Louis XIV’, Revue des Questions Historiques, XLVI (1889), 183.Google Scholar This aspect of their relationship is amusingly illustrated by eighteenth-century engravers, who nearly always show Henri IV looking younger than the staid and elderly Sully at his side, although in fact the king was six years older.

33 This emerges very clearly from the Lettres Missives de Henri IV…, ed. de Xivrey, Berger, 9 vols. (Paris, 1843–1876).Google Scholar

34 Quoted by Pingaud, art. cit. 184.

35 Published at London in 1781, and quoted by Weulersse, Gustave, Mouvement Physiocratique en France (Paris, 1910), 118.Google Scholar

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37 See his Le Roi et le Ministre (Paris, 1775)Google Scholar, at the end of the notes.

38 Op. cit. 9.

39 See Reinhard, Marcel, La Légende de Henri IV (St Brieuc, 1935), on this point.Google Scholar