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A bold new study of politics and power in 17th-century France, this book argues that the French Crown centralized its power nationally by changing the way it delegated its royal patronage in the provinces. During this period, the royal government of Paris gradually extended its sphere of control by taking power away from the powerful and potentially disloyal provincial governors and nobility and instead putting it in the hands of provincial power brokers--regional notables who cooperated with the Paris ministers in exchange for their patronage. The new alliances between the Crown's ministers and loyal provincial elites functioned as political machines on behalf of the Crown, leading to smoother regional-national cooperation and foreshadowing the bureaucratic state that was to follow.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Patrons, Brokers, and Clients in Seventeenth-Century France
• Author: Sharon Kettering
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 332
• EAN: 9780195036732
• ISBN: 9780195036732
• ID: 06544092
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Weight: 648 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 160 × 24 mm

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