Corps and Clienteles Public Finance and Political Change in France, 1688-1715 Routledge Revivals Series
Auteur : Potter Mark
This title was first published in 2003. Corps and Clienteles offers a unique approach to this debate by focusing on the intersection between institutions and personal relationships in the financial strategies surrounding Louis XIV's final two wars. It argues that, in appealing to the elite for financial support to wage war, Louis in return stabilised many of the structures on which the elite stood, entrenched elements of privilege throughout the political landscape, and devolved power to provincial institutions. Especially with the participation of privileged corps as financial intermediaries, the politics of war finance in the last twenty five years of Louis' reign profoundly influenced the direction in which absolutism developed through the remainder of the Old Regime. The book situates the period 1688 to 1715 as a crucial stage in the development of absolutism; tying the choices available to Louis XIV with the structures and institutions that he inherited from his predecessors, while setting his approach apart.
Part I: Absolutism and the Old Regime Elite. 1. Introduction. 2. Venality entrenched: the property rights of office holding under Louis XIV. Part II: Crown and Province. 3. Estates and ruling coalitions in Burgundy. 4. Royal strategies and elite responses in Normandy. Part III: Corps and Clienteles in Public Finance. 5. Lenders and money handlers. 6. Intermediating corps and financial clienteles. 7. Conclusion.
Date de parution : 10-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 04-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
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Mots-clés :
Chambre Des Comptes; Clienteles; Initial Rate Reductions; Corps; Louis XIV’s Reign; France; Le Coq; Louis XIV's; Venal Office Holder; property rights; Provincial Estates; French absolutism; Des Comptes; intermediating corps; Venal Officer; financial clienteles; Louis XIV’s Wars; Louis XIV' reign; Privileged Corps; Kingdom’s Elite; Private Credit Market; Bourgeois De Paris; Extraordinary Affairs; Patrimonial Possession; Extraordinary Financial; Succession Rights; Don Gratuit; Affaires Extraordinaires; Colbert’s Death; Vacant Offices; Receivers General; Royal Finances; Louis XIV; Governmental Front