Page "Jean Bodin" Paragraph 52

Influentially, Bodin defended an orderly Gallican monarchy against Huguenots, and any external interference.

These general ideas became political orthodoxy, in the reign of Henry IV of France, tending to the beginnings of absolutism.

Bodin had numerous followers as political theorist, including Pierre Grégoire, in whom with François Grimaudet legislative authority starts to become closer to the divine right of kings, and William Barclay.

Pierre Charron in La Sagesse of 1601 uses the idea of state from Bodin but with fewer limitations on royal power ; Charron in this work argued for a secular neo-stoicism, putting together ideas of Montaigne and Lipsius with those of Bodin.

Charles Loyseau in the years 1608-10 published absolutist works with the emphasis on orderliness in society, going much beyond Bodin ’ s writing of thirty years earlier, a trend that continued into the 17th century.