Private Ambition and Political Alliances in Louis XIV's Government: The Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain Family 1650-1715

by Sara Chapman

This book explores the processes of state-building and the nature of political power in France during the reign of Louis XIV (1642-1715) through a study of a prominent ministerial family, the Ph lypeaux de Pontchartrain. During the initial development of French governmental institutions in early modern France, patron-client ties provided networks for the transmission of political power that often paralleled or underpinned formal state institutions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580461530
• ISBN13: 9781580461535
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"