Rendelkezni, tudósítani, előre látni
Dispositioning, reporting, anticipating

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author offers a close reading of some historical sources connected to the great famine of 1661-1662 in France. The historian approaches these texts as communicational strategies during crisis-situation which are allowing to their authors to accomplish the royal will. In one hand we have the absolute power of the French monarch as the historical tradition presented it, and in the other it’s limits: the sources are evidencing the different corrective strategies facing the king’s decisions. The final oxymoron (bordered absolute power) argues that the monarchy needs to represent the absolute power in order to bequeath his heritage.

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