Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France

by David A. Bell

Book Overview

David Bell's new book traces the development of the French legal profession between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution, showing how lawyers influenced, and were influenced by, the period's passionate political and religious conflicts. Bell analyzes how these key "middling" figures in French society were transformed from the institutional technicians of absolute monarchy into the self-appointed "voices of public opinion," and leaders...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195076702
• ISBN13: 9780195076707
• Release Date: April 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"