Interpreting the Ancien Régime
Subtitle: David Bien
By: edited by Rafe Blaufarb, Michael S. Christofferson and Darrin M. McMahon ; preface by Keith Baker
Contributors: Blaufarb, Rafe, editor; Christofferson, Michael Scott, editor; McMahon, Darrin M., editor; Voltaire Foundation
Series: Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth century -- 2014:09; SVEC; Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment -- 2014:09.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780729411448
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Enlightenment; History; Politics and government; Causes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. David B. Bien and the paradoxical history of Old Regime France / Michael S. Christofferson; title: The background of the Calas affair; title: Catholic magistrates and Protestant marriage in the French Enlightenment; title: Aristocracy; title: Manufacturing nobles: the chancelleries in France to 1789; title: Property in office under the Ancien Régime: the case of the stockbrokers; title: Every shoemaker an officer: Terray as reformer; title: Old Regime origins of democratic liberty; title: The army in the French Enlightenment: reform, reaction and Revolution; title: Military education in eighteenth-century France: technical and non-technical determinants; title: The nobilities of Toulouse; title: Interview with Norman Cantor.