Embezzlement and High Treason in Louis XIV's France: The Trial of Nicolas Fouquet

by Vincent J. Pitts

Louis XIV's vendetta against his disgraced finance minister exposed dark truths about the state's finances.

From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country's superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped-up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself from all of the major charges over the course of three long years, in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142141824X
• ISBN13: 9781421418247
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher