Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 511 g
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
Public Finance and Political Change in France, 1688-1715
Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 511 g
Reihe: Routledge Revivals
ISBN: 978-1-138-70925-6
Verlag: Routledge
This title was first published in 2003. Corps and Clienteles offers a unique approach to this debate by focusing on the intersection between institutions and personal relationships in the financial strategies surrounding Louis XIV's final two wars. It argues that, in appealing to the elite for financial support to wage war, Louis in return stabilised many of the structures on which the elite stood, entrenched elements of privilege throughout the political landscape, and devolved power to provincial institutions. Especially with the participation of privileged corps as financial intermediaries, the politics of war finance in the last twenty five years of Louis' reign profoundly influenced the direction in which absolutism developed through the remainder of the Old Regime. The book situates the period 1688 to 1715 as a crucial stage in the development of absolutism; tying the choices available to Louis XIV with the structures and institutions that he inherited from his predecessors, while setting his approach apart.
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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.
