The institutions of France under the absolute monarchy, 1598-1789

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The institutions of France under the absolute monarchy, 1598-1789

Roland Mousnier ; translated by Brian Pearce

University of Chicago Press, 1979-1984

  • v. 1
  • v. 2

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Les institutions de la France sous la monarchie absolue, 1598-1789

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Vol. 2 translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Translation of: Les institutions de la France sous la monarchie absolue, 1598-1789

Vol. 1. Society and the state -- v. 2. The organs of state and society

Includes bibliographical references and index

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v. 1 ISBN 9780226543277

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Political and administrative institutions cannot be understood unless one knows who is operating them and for whose benefit they function. In the first volume of this history, Mousnier analyzes such institutions in light of the prevailing social, economic, and ideological structures and shows how they shaped life in 17th- and 18th-century France. He traces the changing role of monarchical government, showing how it emerged over two centuries and why it failed. In a society divided by hierarchical social groups, conflicts among lineages, communities, and districts became inevitable. Aristocratic disdain, ancestral attachment to privileges, and autonomous powers looked upon as rights, made civil unrest, dislocation, and anarchy endemic. Mousnier examines thiscontention between classes as they faced each other across the institutional barriers of education, religion, economic resources, technology, means of defense and communication, and territorial and family ties. He shows why a monarchical state was necessary to preserve order within this fragmented society. Though it was intent on ensuring the survival of French society and the public good, the Absolute Monarchy was unable to maintain security, equilibrium, and cooperation among rival social groups. Discussing the feeble technology at its disposal and its weak means of governing, Mousnier points to the causes that brought the state to the limits of its resources. His comprehensive analysis will greatly interest students of the "ancien regime" and comparativists in political science and sociology as well. "
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v. 2 ISBN 9780226543284

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Mousnier continues his massive and masterly history of France's transition from the Old Regime to the New. Mousnier's subject is the organization of the state, from the Council at the summit to the most humble clerks, guards, and attendants. He traces the gradual transformation of France from a judiciary state to a financial and executive bureaucracy, from a state and society based on hereditary statuses to one based on talents, personal capacities, and achievements, from the might of the sword to the power of the pen.

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