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Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Part I The Politique Problem -- Chapter 1 Politics and Politiques -- Histories of Politics -- Histories of Politiques -- Approaches -- Methods -- Sources -- Politics and Politiques -- Chapter 2 Pre-Histories and Word Histories -- Weeds in the Garden of France -- Origins -- Between Philosophers and Princes before 1550: Budé and Rabelais -- Politiques in Dialogue(s) c. 1550-68: Le Caron, Pasquier, L'Hospital -- La Noue and Montaigne: Surviving Fragments -- Part II C. 1568-78 -- Chapter 3 Wise Politiques? Jean Bodin and Loys Le Roy -- The République and the Politiques d'Aristote -- Introducing La Science Politique -- Aristotle's Politiques? -- Prudent Politiques -- Bodin's Sages Politiques -- Politique Self-Fashioning -- Chapter 4 A Wake-Up Call and A Call to Arms: Le reveille-matin des François and Simon Goulart's Mémoires de l'estat de France -- The Borrowers: The Reveille-matin and the Mémoires -- The Politique's Wake-Up Call -- Le Politique contre Machiavel -- The Politique Reader, between Liberty and Servitude -- Memory and Projection: The Politique Agent -- Part III C. 1588-94 -- Chapter 5 'What Is This Monster?' The 'Bad' Politique -- Mixed Merchandise: A Proliferation of Politiques -- The 'Bad' Politique -- Mixed Messages -- Politique Manners -- The Politique Body -- The Politique Monster -- Chapter 6 Strange Meeting: The Dialogue d'entre le Maheustre et le Manant, and the Satyre ménippée -- Dialogue and Satire -- Naming, Renaming, and Redescribing: 'Our Friends, Whom You Call Politiques' -- Redescription and Resistance -- Redescription/Conversion -- 'The Politiques Who Distort Meaning' -- Redescribing Borders -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Manuscript Primary Sources -- Archives nationales de France (AN) -- Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF) -- Printed Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Internet Sources -- Lectures -- Index.

During the French Wars of Religion, the nature and identity of politics was the subject of passionate debate and controversy. Exploring early modern French uses of the word 'politique' and the statesman who practised this art, this book investigates questions of language and of power over the course of a tumultuous century.