LEADER 04486nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910455604203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-511-04697-9 010 $a0-511-15407-0 010 $a0-511-01818-5 035 $a(CKB)111087027188834 035 $a(EBL)201698 035 $a(OCoLC)808027965 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000238172 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11924882 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000238172 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10222144 035 $a(PQKB)10890818 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC201698 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL201698 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10014600 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027188834 100 $a20001109d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRichelieu's army$b[electronic resource] $ewar, government, and society in France, 1624-1642 /$fDavid Parrot 210 $aCambridge, U.K. ;$aNew York, N.Y. $cCambridge University Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (628 p.) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in early modern history 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-521-79209-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 557-578) and index. 327 $a""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Series-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Glossary""; ""COMPANY AND REGIMENTAL OFFICERS""; ""WEAPONRY, EQUIPMENT AND PROVISIONING""; ""ARMY ORGANIZATION""; ""Abbreviations""; ""INTRODUCTION War, government and society in France, 1624a???1642""; ""PART I The military context""; ""1 The French art of war during Richelieu's ministry""; ""THE FRENCH `ART OF WARFARE' IN THEORY""; ""A rhetoric of military reform""; ""The Huguenot adoption of the Orangist military rhetoric and its alternatives"" 327 $a""The significance of tactical theory""""THE FRENCH `ART OF WARFARE' IN PRACTICE""; ""Training and drill in the French armies""; ""The role of veteran and foreign troops in military effectiveness""; ""Optimum unit size and the decline of effective troop numbers""; ""A WAR OF SIEGES""; ""The shortage of cavalry""; ""The French armies and their artillery""; ""Success and failure on the battlefield""; ""War-winning strategies""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""2 France at war, 1624a???1642""; ""AIMS AND METHODS, 1624a???1634""; ""FRANCE AND THE EUROPEAN CRISIS, 1618a???1626"" 327 $a""Calculating the size of the army from revues and their extraits""""The approximate size of the French army before 1635""; ""The French army from 1635 to 1642""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""PART II The administrative context""; ""4 Paying for war""; ""CROWN REVENUES AND THE COSTS OF THE WAR-EFFORT""; ""THE INADEQUACY OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES""; ""The burden of deficit finance""; ""SHORTAGE OF SPECIE AND PROBLEMS OF CONVERSION""; ""Corruption""; ""Corruption within the administration of the armies""; ""The predators"" 327 $a""THE IMPLICATIONS OF FINANCIAL INADEQUACY FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF FUNDING TO THE ARMIES""""The use of assigned revenues""; ""The surintendants' order of priorities and military contributions""; ""The introduction of new taxes""; ""5 Recruiting and maintaining armies during the Thirty Years War: military enterprise""; ""THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SYSTEM""; ""The military enterpriser in the Thirty Years War""; ""The 'contributions-system'""; ""The entrepreneurial 'way of warfare'""; ""FRENCH RESPONSES TO MILITARY ENTERPRISE""; ""Political fears""; ""The French monarchy and foreign mercenaries"" 327 $a""Saxe-Weimar and 'general contractors' in French service"" 330 $aIt is assumed widely that 'war made the state' in seventeenth-century France. Yet this study challenges the traditional interpretations of the role of the army as an instrument of the emerging absolutist state, and shows how the expansion of the French war effort contributed to weakening Richelieu's hold upon France. Runner up in the History Today Awards 2002. 410 0$aCambridge studies in early modern history 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yLouis XIII, 1610-1643 607 $aFrance$xHistory, Military$y1610-1643 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a944/.032 700 $aParrott$b David$01051378 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455604203321 996 $aRichelieu's army$92481851 997 $aUNINA