Provincial power and absolute monarchy : the Estates General of Burgundy, 1661-1790 / Julian Swann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swann, Julian.

Series:

New studies in European history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France. États généraux.

France.

Burgundy (France)--Politics and government--17th century.

Burgundy (France).

Burgundy (France)--Politics and government--18th century.

Physical Description:

xv, 460 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Contents:

Map: The duchy of Burgundy in the eighteenth century xvi

1 Historians, absolute monarchy and the provincial estates 1

2 Ancien regime Burgundy 26

3 The Estates General of Burgundy 41

4 Nosseigneurs les elus and the officers of the Estates 91

5 The provincial administration: authority and enforcement 126

6 'It's raining taxes'. Paying for the Sun King, 1661-1715 154

7 Provincial administration in an age of iron, 1661-1715 194

8 The limits of absolutism: crown, governor and the Estates in the eighteenth century 230

9 Provincial rivalries: the Estates and the Parlement of Dijon in the eighteenth century 262

10 Tax, borrow and lend: crown, Estates and finance, 1715-1789 295

11 An enlightened administration? 330

12 The coming of the French revolution in Burgundy, 1787-1789 365.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-446) and index.

ISBN:

0521827671

OCLC:

51223536

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