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Feudalism, Venality, and Revolution - Provincial Assemblies in Late-Old Regime France (Hardcover)
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Feudalism, Venality, and Revolution - Provincial Assemblies in Late-Old Regime France (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Early Modern European History
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According to Alexis de Tocqueville's influential work on the Old
Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so
weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining
privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book
challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened
assemblies of landowners in the late 1770s and 1780s to discuss
policies needed to resolve the budgetary crisis, he faced
widespread opposition from lords and office holders. These elites
regarded the assemblies as a challenge to their hereditary power
over commoners. The king's government comprised seigneurial
jurisdictions and venal offices. Lordships and offices upheld
inequality on behalf of the nobility and bred the discontent
motivating the people to make the French Revolution. -- .
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