despotique

Huguenots in Holland and England began to use the term despotique for the polemical purpose of compar -

DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968

Huguenots in Holland and England began to use the term despotique for the polemical purpose of compar -

Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

During the Fronde, the type of royal power exercised by the Sultan was called despotique, and distinguished from that recognized by French consti - tutional usage: “Not all monarchies are despotiques; only the Turkish is of that kind” (Derathé, “Les philosophes ...,” p. 61).

DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968

During the Fronde, the type of royal power exercised by the Sultan was called despotique, and distinguished from that recognized by French consti - tutional usage: “Not all monarchies are despotiques; only the Turkish is of that kind” (Derathé, “Les philosophes ...,” p. 61).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

Le monde occidental a les yeux rivés sur l'Iran croyant naïvement qu'une révolution est en train de se produire et qui pourrait emporter le régime despotique en place depuis la chute du Chah.

Global Voices in English » Maghreb: Views on Iran 2009

This puissance despotique was con - trary to reason, humanity, the spirit of Christianity itself.

DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968

Moerbeke or those in French (princey despotique, despotic, despotes) coined by Nicole Oresme.

DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968

Il n'y a point de patrie dans le despotique, d'autre choses y suppléent: l'intérêt, la gloire, le service du prince.

DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968

This phrase was used in virtually the same sense in La Bruyère's Les caractères, where it is contrasted with le despotique:

DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968

The step from le despotique to le despotisme was taken by Pierre Bayle and Fénelon.

DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968