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By John J. Hurt

this can be the 1st scholarly examine of the political and financial dating among Louis XIV and the parlements of France, the Parlement of Paris and the entire provincial tribunals. the writer explains how the king controlled to impose strict political self-discipline for which this reign, and purely this reign, is understood. damage exhibits that the king outfitted upon that self-discipline to extract huge sums of cash from the judges within the parlements, hence destructive their fiscal pursuits. whilst the king died in 1715, the regent, Philippe d'Orléans, after a short try and befriend the parlements via compromise, resorted to the authoritarian tools of Louis XIV and perpetuated the solar King's political and financial legacy.

This research calls into query present revisionist figuring out of Louis XIV and insists that absolute govt had a harsh fact at its middle. dependent upon large archival study, this amazing ebook could be of curiosity to all scholars of the historical past of early glossy France and the monarchies of Europe.

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