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Hardcover Feudalism, Venality, and Revolution: Provincial Assemblies in Late-Old Regime France Book

ISBN: 1526148374

ISBN13: 9781526148377

Feudalism, Venality, and Revolution: Provincial Assemblies in Late-Old Regime France

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...

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