Julian Swann

Politics and the Parlement of Paris Under Louis XV, 1754 1774

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of the causes and consequences of the political crises between King and Parlement in eighteenth-century France.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780521483629
• ISBN-10: 052148362X
• Artikelnr.: 22174297

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction: the Parlement of Paris
2. Historians and the parlements
3
The king and his judges
4. The parti janséniste and the refusal of the sacraments crisis, 1754-1756
5. Managing the parlements: crisis and compromise, 1756-1758
6. The Parlement and fiscal politics, 1756-1763
7. Choiseul and the politics of appeasement, 1758-1763
8. An unhappy peace, 1763
9. Defending La Chalotais: the Brittany affair, 1764-1766
10. In the eye of the storm, 1767-1770
11. The fall of the Parlement of Paris, 1770-1771
Conclusion: Maupeou and beyond
Bibliography
Index.