Fresh Batch #44: A Peek at France's Ascension and Italy's Decline

From the Perspective of a Turkish Spy in Paris, 1672 AD

What if the forms of government we believed are beneficial are actually the worst forms of government? Mahmut wrote in a letter to Hamet, Reis Effendi, Principle Secretary of the Ottoman Empire (1672), “’Tis a Maxim of the Salique Law, That the King of France never dies. But this indeed is altogether as true in Spain, Great-Britain, and other Hereditary Kingdoms, till the Succession fails. For then it degenerates to an Elective Monarchy, or otherwise into Aristocracy; or last of all into Democracy, or a Republic.

“But France is yet free from these painted Forms of Slavery. Her Kings are masculine and vigorous; her Queens chaste and fruitful. There never wants an Heir apparent to the Crown. And this secures the Nation from a thousand Calamities which attend Elective Monarchies, and more popular Forms of Government.”

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If you like to learn more about how a nation declines once its hereditary rulership dries up, the disputes, schisms, divisions, and dependencies that ensue, keep reading.

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