HIST 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cardinal Mazarin, New Men, Personal Rule
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Imposed tariffs on foreign goods: he used state economy to improve roads and waterways, encouraged homegrown products instead of foreign imports. Improved tax collective: reduced tax farming (where tax collectors keep share of tax they collected) colbert was only partially successful. Increased public offices (to boost state revenue: 5) quest for glory abroad, done through 2 methods, a. Expansion of france"s colonial empire: french colonies forced to trade exclusively with mother country, b. Tortured and executed by parlement of toulouse; response of fran ois marie arouet (voltaire), treatise on tolerance on the occasion of the death of jean calas from the judgment rendered in. Sapere aude: dare to know (think for yourselves) Philosophers believed in human reason and universal human progress reason should be primary source of legitimacy not monarchy or church or customs. Where do ideas come from: associated with france. Enlightenment thinkers (philosophes) sought to apply scientific methods to moral or human sciences.
