Early modern France and Austria as baroque states

I believe that the description of “baroque” applies not only to France, but to many other early modern European states. One which I have been studying was Austria and the Habsburg lands. Like France, the Habsburg empire was composed of many territories which possessed their own traditions, customs, and institutions. This paper is an examination of France and the Habsburg monarchy in the early modern period, primarily the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and their respective systems of government, to explain why both were baroque states.