Munro Price, Price Munro

Preserving the Monarchy

The Comte de Vergennes 1774 1787

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new study of the role of the comte de Vergennes in the politics of the French monarchy before the Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 595g
• ISBN-13: 9780521465663
• ISBN-10: 0521465664
• Artikelnr.: 22128440

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Recalled to life
king, queen, and first minister: the Guines affair
2. The question of reform: Turgot, Necker, and Vergennes
3. Vergennes as first minister: the comité des finances
4. The fall of the comité des finances: the comité and credit policy
the crisis of the caisse d'escompte
the reform of the general farm
conclusion
5. The politics of judicial reform
6. The politics of retrenchment
7. The ministry, its divisions, and the parlement of Paris, 1785-6
the diamond necklace affair
8. The Dutch imbroglio
9. Death and posterity
Bibliography.