num_pages: 848
description: Volume 1 describes the relations of Church and State, the wealth of the Church, and its role in national life from Versailles to the scaffold. Dioceses, parishes, and the monastic structure are presented in detail, and the vocation and life-style of the clergy as in mesh with every aspect of social living.
language: English
title: Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: Volume 1: The Clerical Establishment and its Social Ramification
titlecomplete: Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: Volume 1: The Clerical Establishment and its Social Ramification
characters: André-Hercule de Fleury, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Jacques Necker, Louis XV of France, François Fénelon, Louis XIV of France, Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin, Jean Baptiste Massillon, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, Christophe de Beaumont, Denis Diderot, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, Louis de Noailles, Louis XVI of France
places: France
series: Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France, Oxford History of the Christian Church
publisher: Clarendon Press