Paris City Councillors in the Sixteenth-Century: The Politics of Patrimony

by Barbara B. Diefendorf

Book Overview

This book examines the character of the governing elite of sixteenth-century Paris--a group that included some of the most important jurists, administrators, and intellectuals of the early modern French state--and investigates the strategies employed by members of this group to promote and maintain their position in the city and in the monarchy.

Originally published in 1983.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691613664
• ISBN13: 9780691613666
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"