Stephen Miller

Feudalism, venality, and revolution (eBook, ePUB)

Provincial assemblies in late-Old Regime France

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The American University in Cairo Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526148360
• Artikelnr.: 60453411

Autorenporträt

Stephen Miller has had a lifelong interest in popular music in general and country music in particular. He was a regular contributor to Scot Country, a radio show broadcast from Edinburgh. He has written biographies of Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton and Kris Kristofferson.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 The king's entourage and public clashes over provincial
assemblies 2 The emergence of anti-noble politics and the provincial
assembly of Berry 3 Bourgeois liberalism and revolutionary politics: the
provincial assembly of Lyonnais 4 Poitou and the question of feudalism from
the Old Regime to revolution and counterrevolution 5 Provincial assemblies
and the revolutionary challenge to patrimonialism 6 Village elections and
the development of liberal perspectives on government Conclusion Index