Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy
Subtitle: The Estates General of Burgundy, 16611790 (New Studies in European History)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780521036672
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; History; History - General History; History: World; France; Europe - France; Political History; History / Europe / General; History / France; Political Science : Political History; Europe - General
First sentence: After witnessing the rise and often rapid fall of three monarchies, two empires, five republics and the Vichy regime in the space of less than two centuries, the French people can be forgiven a certain scepticism about the durability of both their rules and the country's political institutions.