France - Historical Biography, General & Miscellaneous French History, France - Political Biography, Monarchy & Feudalism, 1589 - 1789 (Bourbon Dynasty) - French History, France - Politics & Government
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This is the first scholarly study of the political and economic relationship between Louis XIV and the parliaments of France, the parliament of Paris and all the provincial tribunals. This study calls into question the current revisionist understanding of the reign of Louis XIV and insists that absolute government had a harsh reality at its core.
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Hurt (history, U. of Delaware) examines the political and economic relationship between Louis XIV and the parlements of France, the Parlement of Paris, and all the provincial tribunals. He shows that the king built on the strict political discipline he established to extract large sums of money from the judges in the parlements. The volume calls into question the current "revisionist" understanding of the reign of Louis XIV and insists that, , absolute government had a harsh reality at its core. Distributed by Palgrave. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
May 16, 2002
Publisher
Manchester, UK ; Manchester University Press ; 2002.
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780719062353