Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV's France - Franche-Comté and Absolute Monarchy, 1674-1715

New insights on the growth of the territorial state in early modern Europe, the nature of the French absolute monarchy, and the political legacy of the Sun King.

List of contents

Introduction
Franche-Comté before the French
The Conditions of Conquest: Louis XIV and the Free City of Besançon
The Politics of Integration: Franche-Comté as Pays Conquis
The Nine Years' War and the Transformation of Crown-Elite Relations
Managing Elites: the Monarchy and the Parlement of Besançon, 1699-1705
War Finance in Franche-Comté, 1701-1714
Wartime Government in Franche-Comté and the French Royal State
Conclusion
Appendixes

Product details

• Authors: Darryl Dee
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2009
• EAN: 9781580463034
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-303-4
• No. of pages: 259
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 517 g
• Series: Changing Perspectives on Early
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918