Paris City Councillors in the Sixteenth-Century: The Politics of Patrimony (Princeton Legacy Library) [Hardcover] Diefendorf, Barbara B - gebunden oder broschiert

This book examines the character of the governing elite of sixteenth-century Paris--a group that included some of the most important jurists, administrators, and intellectuals of the early modern French state--and investigates the strategies employed by members of this group to promote and maintain their position in the city and in the monarchy.

Originally published in 1983.

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