Preserving the Monarchy

The Comte de Vergennes 1774 1787

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Price, MunroMunro, Price

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Cambridge University Presserschienen am26.01.1995

The Comte de Vergennes is best known as one of the great French foreign ministers. Munro Price's new study concentrates on the lesser-known aspect of Vergennes' career as Louis XVI's first minister. New light is cast upon Vergennes' crucial role in trying to reform and consolidate royal authority in the final years of the ancien regime.mehr

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KlappentextThe Comte de Vergennes is best known as one of the great French foreign ministers. Munro Price's new study concentrates on the lesser-known aspect of Vergennes' career as Louis XVI's first minister. New light is cast upon Vergennes' crucial role in trying to reform and consolidate royal authority in the final years of the ancien regime.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-521-46566-3

ProduktartBuch

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Verlag

Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr1995

Erscheinungsdatum26.01.1995

Seiten270 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 157 mm, Höhe 235 mm, Dicke 21 mm

Gewicht595 g

Artikel-Nr.15661653

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GenreGeschichte/Politik

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Recalled to life; king, queen, and first minister: the Guines affair; 2. The question of reform: Turgot, Necker, and Vergennes; 3. Vergennes as first minister: the comité des finances; 4. The fall of the comité des finances: the comité and credit policy; the crisis of the caisse d'escompte; the reform of the general farm; conclusion; 5. The politics of judicial reform; 6. The politics of retrenchment; 7. The ministry, its divisions, and the parlement of Paris, 1785-6; the diamond necklace affair; 8. The Dutch imbroglio; 9. Death and posterity; Bibliography.mehr