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Feudalism, venality, and revolution Provincial assemblies in late-Old Regime France
Title
Feudalism, venality, and revolution Provincial assemblies in late-Old Regime France / Stephen Miller.
ISBN
9781526148384
1526148382
9781526148377
Publication
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 221 pages.)
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Summary
According to Alexis de Tocqueville's influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened assemblies of landowners in the late 1770s and 1780s to discuss policies needed to resolve the budgetary crisis, he faced widespread opposition from lords and office holders. These elites regarded the assemblies as a challenge to their hereditary power over commoners. The king's government comprised seigneurial jurisdictions and venal offices. Lordships and offices upheld inequality on behalf of the nobility and bred the discontent motivating the people to make the French Revolution.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 04, 2020
Series
Studies in early modern European history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [194]-216) and index.
Contents
The king's entourage and public clashes over provincial assemblies
The emergence of anti-noble politics and the provincial assembly of Berry
Bourgeois liberalism and revolutionary politics : the provincial assembly of Lyonnais
Poitou and the question of feudalism, from the Old Regime to revolution and counterrevolution
Provincial assemblies and the revolutionary challenge to patrimonialism
Village elections and the development of liberal perspectives on government.
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