Title: An historical account of the antient parliaments of France, or States-general of the kingdom : in fourteen letters, shewing the quality of the members that composed those assemblies, the form of their deliberations and proceedings, the vast extent of their power, their most celebrated judgments, the characters of the princes that called them, from Charlemagne to Louis XI, and the several perfidious artifices and steps of the French kings and their ministers, for gradually reducing the nation from a plenitude, to its present state of servitude and slavery
Subtitle: to which is added a chronological abridgment of the history of France under the reigns of the kings of the first race
Subjects: Early works to 1800, Politics and government, France. Etats généraux, France, History
Places: France
Time periods: To 987