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Lawyers and Citizens - The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France (Paperback)
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Lawyers and Citizens - The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France (Paperback)
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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.
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