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Venality - The Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France (Hardcover, New)
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Venality - The Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France (Hardcover, New)
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In ancien regime France almost all posts of public responsibility
had to be bought or inherited. Rather than tax their richer
subjects directly, French kings preferred to sell them privileged
public offices, which further payments allowed them to sell or
bequeath at will. By the eighteenth century there were 70,000 venal
offices, comprising the entire judiciary, most of the legal
profession, officers in the army, and a wide range of other
professions - from financiers handling the king's revenues down to
auctioneers and even wigmakers. Though now yielding diminishing
returns to the king, offices were more in demand than ever for the
privileges and prestige, profit and power, that they conferred; and
although it was widely accepted that selling public authority was
undesirable, nobody imagined that those who had invested in offices
could ever be bought out. The Revolution brought an unexpected
opportunity to do so, but the legacy of venality has marked French
institutions down to our day. William Doyle, one of the foremost
historians of early modern Europe, has written the first
comprehensive history of the last century of venality. He traces
the evolution and dissolution of a system which was fundamental to
the workings of state and society in France for over three
centuries.
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