title: [The impossible monarchy. The crisis of the regency of the last Spanish Habsburg (1668-1669)].
abstract: Through the crisis of the regency of the last Habsburg, which triggered a "conflict of legitimation", this article analyses the notion of legitimacy from the viewpoint of the action and from the viewpoint of the ideas that underlie the action. Our investigation shows the interactionist nature of the practices of legitimation and emphasises the limit of an explanation based on rhetoric. In a conflict that cannot be equated to the mere physics of confrontations, the key question is that of the incarnation of the sociopolitical body.
authors.affiliation: Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, CMMC/EA1193, 98, boulevard Édouard Herriot, BP 3209, F-06204, Nice cedex 3, France, heloise.hermant@wanadoo.fr.
authors.forename: Héloïse
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hermant