Available Formats
The Revolt of the Judges: The Parlement of Paris and the Fronde, 1643-1652
By (Author) Alanson Lloyd Moote
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political structure and processes
944.03
Paperback
424
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
567g
Discarding the traditional view of the Fronde as an abortive revolution against "absolute monarchy" during the minority of Louis XIV, A. Lloyd Moote analyzes it by studying the ambivalent role of its leading institutional element, the Parlement of Paris. France's highest tribunal, dedicated to law and the principles of royal absolutism, the Parleme