The comte de Vergennes is best known as one of the great foreign
ministers of modern French history, but for much of the 1780s he
was also first minister in all but name. This 1995 book was the
first to deal in depth with the critical part he played in French
domestic policies on the eve of the Revolution. It studies
Vergennes' role in the context of the debate on the nature and
future of the French monarchy in the two decades before the
Revolution. His financial reforms, fully examined here, were the
last attempt to restructure the monarchy in accordance with its
traditional principles. The failure of this undertaking accelerated
the final collapse of the royal government. Preserving the Monarchy
is based on archival research, as well as reinterpretations of the
established sources. The result is a significant study, not merely
of Vergennes but of the end of the ancien regime.
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