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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783842703321

Autore

Campbell Peter Robert <1955, >

Titolo

Power and politics in Old Regime France, 1720-1745 / / Peter R. Campbell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-92354-6

1-134-92355-4

1-280-06968-6

0-585-46476-6

9786610069682

0-203-41369-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Disciplina

320.944

Soggetti

Jansenists - France - History - 18th century

France Politics and government 1715-1774

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-412) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: APPROACHES TO POLITICS IN THE ANCIENT REGIME; THE RISE TO POWER OF ANDRE-HERCULE DE FLEURY; THE ACQUISITION OF A MINISTERIAL POST, 1721  3; THE MINISTRY OF THE DUG DE BOURBON, 1723  6; THE DISGRACING OF BOURBON; THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE MINISTRY OF FLEURY; THE CONTROL OF PATRONAGE AND POLICY; THE POLITICS OF FACTION; CONCLUSION TO PART 1: THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF COURT SOCIETY; INTRODUCTION; THE PARTI JANSNISTE IN THE 1720's AND 1730's; THE PARLEMENT OF PARIS

THE CRISIS OF 1730  2: THE GENESIS OF THE CRISIS THE CRISIS OF 1730  2: RESOLVING THE CRISIS; MANAGING THE PARLEMENT: 1733  43 AND BEYOND; CONCLUSION; The King's ministers 1723  45; The identity of the Jansenist magistrates; Chronological table of events in the Paris parlement, 1730  2; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This provides a sophisticated interpretation of high politics in the Age Louis XV . It will be stimulating reading for not only historians of ancien



regime France, but all students of political life in pre-nineteenth century Europe.