| Summary: | Both Norbert Elias and Louis Marin died in the 1990s: the German sociologist in 1990, at the age of eighty-three years and the French philosopher-semiotician in 1992 at the age of only sixty-one. While examining the work of each does not suggest contact between them, or establish relations between their respective works, neither were historians but both elaborated — within the framework of their respective disciplines — original readings of seventeenth century France, of court society and absolutism. The two approaches influenced, unequally (Elias much more than Marin) historical research and constitute, still today, a fundamental interpretation of this period that interests all those passionate about the methods and categories for interpreting the history of the court.
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