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Venality the sale of offices in eighteenth-century France
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Title
Venality [electronic resource] : the sale of offices in eighteenth-century France / William Doyle.
ISBN
9780191676598 (ebook) :
Published
Oxford : Clarendon, 1996.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvii, 343 p.) : ill.
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Summary
In ancien régime France almost all posts of public respsonsibility had to be bought or inherited. In this book, one of the foremost historians of early modern Europe traces the evolution and development of this system.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 01, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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