Third, in France at least to the mid-1700s and elsewhere to the end of the period under review, official ideologies in varying degrees remained commited to cosmopolitan over national ideals and to social hierarchy over horizontal unity. Governments continued to conceptualize their arty in primarily dynastic and religious terms that were ostensibly universalist and often indifferent to secular culture. Muscovy ́s Lasion dere was to promote Orthodoxy. The French sovereign styled himself the Most Christian King.