ABSTRACT
Eustache de Refuge was a French nobleman, courtier and crown official who was entrusted with numerous administrative positions in France at the end of the sixteenth century and start of the seventeenth century that gave him an in-depth knowledge of the workings of the French royal government and royal court. His work Traicte de la cour, ou instruction des courtisans was printed in 1616 and follows in the tradition of courtly literature established in the previous century by Machiavelli and Castiglione. The order of Passions as they produce, and engender one the other, is thus: Loue, Desire, Hope, Boldnesse, Ioy; and contrariwise, Hatred, flight to Horrour, Feare, Choler, Dispaire, and Sorrow. Confidence comes also, when those things people would do, are profitable, either to many, or to personages of greater ranke and qualitie, then are those whom they may offend.
