Patrons, Brokers, and Clients in Seventeenth-Century France

by Sharon Kettering

A bold new study of politics and power in 17th-century France, this book argues that the French Crown centralized its power nationally by changing the way it delegated its royal patronage in the provinces. During this period, the royal government of Paris gradually extended its sphere of control by taking power away from the powerful and potentially disloyal provincial governors and nobility and instead putting it in the hands of provincial power...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195036735
• ISBN13: 9780195036732
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"