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Judicial Politics and Urban Revolt in Seventeenth-Century France: The Parlement of Aix, 1629-1659
By (Author) Sharon Kettering
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
European history
320.9440903
Paperback
384
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
510g
Most historical scholarship concerned with the Fronde has investigated the Parlement of Paris. By focusing on the different experience of high court judges in Aix-en-Provence, Sharon Kettering illuminates the causes of resistance to royal authority and offers a new understanding of the role of provincial officials in seventeenth-century revolts. Th