The State in Early Modern FranceThis major new textbook addresses fundamental questions about the nature of the state in early modern Europe through an analysis of the most important continental state, France. Professor Collins abandons the traditional formulation of the absolute monarchy, and presents in its place a state that evolved to meet the needs of the French elites. |
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Page 10 - Hanley, The Lit de Justice of the Kings of France (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983); and Lawrence M.