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Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France

Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France

Bell, David A.

Hardcover

French HistoryGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0195076702
ISBN13: 9780195076707
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 14 1994
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
David Bell's new 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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