Officers, nobles and revolutionaries : essays on eighteenth-century France / by Doyle, William, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Illustrations; Abbreviations; 1 The Parlements of France and the Breakdown of the Old Regime; 2 Was there an Aristocratic Reaction in Pre-Revolutionary France?; 3 The Price of Ennobling Offices in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux; 4 Venality and Society in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux; 5 The Price of Offices in Pre-Revolutionary France; 6 4 August 1789: The Intellectual Background to the Abolition of Venality of Offices; 7 Reforming the Criminal Law at the End of the Old Regime: The Example of President Dupaty.…”
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