The Revolt of the Judges: The Parlement of Paris and the Fronde, 1643-1652

by A. Lloyd Moote

Discarding the traditional view of the Fronde as an abortive revolution against "absolute monarchy" during the minority of Louis XIV, A. Lloyd Moote analyzes it by studying the ambivalent role of its leading institutional element, the Parlement of Paris. France's highest tribunal, dedicated to law and the principles of royal absolutism, the Parlement was paradoxically, at the center of the opposition from the beginning of the movement for state reform...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691051917
• ISBN13: 9780691051918
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.