1st Edition
Corps and Clienteles Public Finance and Political Change in France, 1688-1715
By Mark Potter
Copyright 2003
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2003. Few historians would deny that Louis XIV's France dominated the political, cultural and military landscape of late seventeenth century Europe. Yet, the financial foundations on which French hegemony were based remain open to question. Traditionally the regime has been viewed as the archetypal centralizing monarchy in which warfare was the main motor driving... Read more
Part I: Absolutism and the Old Regime Elite. 1. Introduction. 2. Venality entrenched: the property rights of office holding under Louis XIV. Part II: Crown and Province. 3. Estates and ruling coalitions in Burgundy. 4. Royal strategies and elite responses in Normandy. Part III: Corps and Clienteles in Public Finance. 5. Lenders and money handlers. 6. Intermediating corps and financial clienteles. 7. Conclusion.
Biography
Mark Potter
'... a fine contribution to our understanding of how early modern government actually worked.' H-France Reviews '... [a] a rigorously researched and tightly argued book...' French History 'The last chapters of this book are particularly innovative.' European History Quarterly
