I was reading a book about Thomas Hobbes (1588 -1679) and there was this part:
[...] Hobbes persevered in his studies and gave his [...] political beliefs their most finished statement in his masterpiece, "Leviathan", which he published in 1651. Hardly anyone at the English court in France liked it; it was absolutist enough, but it expressed no particular bias in favour of monarchy. [...] Hobbes appeared to give more comfort to the Puritans than to the Royalists.
Could someone explain what is meant by "English court in France"? Is it like a legal court or more of a government? What people constituted it? Any resources I should read to understand it?
This could be in Simple Questions. It means a royal court: the extended household of family, servitors, attendants, etc. around a king or queen. After the Parliamentary victory in the English Civil War in 1645, Charles I's queen Henrietta Maria ( the daughter of French king Henry III) set up her court in France at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, which attracted a lot of Royalist exiles, as well as the future Charles II and James I. A philosophical treatise that didn't rest the authority of the king in simple Divine Right might have been expected to get a poor reception there in 1651, which was only two years after the execution of Charles I.