History 1401E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cesare Beccaria, Enlightened Absolutism, Toleration
27 May 2016
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Religious toleration: the state understood that it must tolerate religious minorities, christianity was not the only religion that mattered, catholic/protestant tension // battled around the ideas of religious toleration in. For example, if they accepted the philosopher"s ideas, they were an enlightened despot. Yet most historians today argue that it is important to remember that absolutist rulers were far from all powerful. Before the beginnings of the french revolution, all parts of society agreed that a reform was necessary. The people who had lived through the philosophical. The king (louis xvi) lacked the fortitude to push forward with all the reforms that he planned during his reign. Even the monarchs agreed that changes needed to be made in administration, the way that it applied decisions. Turgot, the financial minister, was dismissed [first of many financial ministers during louis xvi"s reign]: the neckar administrative reforms (late 1770s revised in 1781 thrown out after neckar"s, the next financial minister, dismissal)
