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Lawyers and Citizens

By Bell, David A

Lawyers and Citizens

By Bell, David A

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David Bell's 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 analyzes 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 alienation from the monarchy under the pressure of religious disputes in the early eighteenth century, 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
296
Release Date:
2020-02-01
Publication Date:
2020-02-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0197507727
ISBN13:
9780197507728
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[email protected]
Weight:
507 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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