| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-271) and index. |
| Summary |
Not only were lawyers heavily represented among the men who rose to power in France in 1789, to a large extent, they also shapted the evolution of French political culture under the ancien regime. David Bell's new book traces the development of the French legal profession between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution, showing how lawyers influenced, and were influenced by, the period's passionate political and religious conflicts. Bell analyses how these key "middling" figures in French society were transformed from the institutional technicians of absolute monarchy into the self-appointed "voices of public opinion," and leaders of opposition political journalism. He describes the birth of an independent legal profession in the late seventeenth century, its alientation from the monarchy under the pressure of religious disputes in the early eighteenth, and its transformation into a standard-bearer of "enlightened" opinion in the decades before the Revolution. His work illuminates the workings of politics under a theoretically absolute monarchy, and the importance of long-standing constitutional debates for the ideological origins of the Revolution.; It also sheds new light on the development of the modern professions, and of the middle classes in France. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lawyers -- France -- Paris -- History.
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Lawyers. |
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France -- Paris. |
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History. |
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Practice of law -- France -- Paris -- History.
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Practice of law. |
| Chronological Term |
1589-1789 |
| Indexed Term |
Politics Related to Public law History |
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France |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bell, David Avrom. Lawyers and citizens. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994 (DLC) 93023089 |
| ISBN |
1423737733 (electronic book) |
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9781423737735 (electronic book) |
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0195360338 |
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9780195360332 |
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9780195076707 |
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0195076702 |
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1280442549 |
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9781280442544 |
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0195076702 |
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