Court preacher to Louis XIV of France, Bossuet was a strong advocate of political absolutism and the divine right of kings. He argued that government was divinely ordained and that kings received sovereignpower from God. He was also an important courtier and politician.
The works best known to English speakers are three great orations delivered at the funerals of Queen Henrietta Maria, widow of Charles I of England(1669), of her daughter Henriette, Duchess of Orléans(1670), and of the outstanding military commander le Grand Condé (1687).
