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4.0 out of 5 stars
Somewhat difficult but quite revealing,
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This review is from: The Coming of French Absolutism: The Struggle for Tax Reform in the Province of Dauphine, 1540-1640 (Hardcover)
As the French monarchy began to implement "absolutist" policies, the pays d'etat, provinces with their own representative Estates which handled tax collection, were a barrier to crown policy. Hickey's book considers the implementation of "absolutism" in Dauphine, and shows how, ultimately, it wasn't crown policy but instead the inability of provincial factions to agree that brought about a restructuring of the tax system, the great herald of "absolutist" government. This is a difficult book, and requires some level of knowledge of what was involved with "absolutist" government and how French taxation worked, but it is an important work in considering "absolutist" government in provincial France.
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The Coming of French Absolutism: The Struggle for Tax Reform in the Province of Dauphine, 1540-1640 by Daniel Hickey (Hardcover - Oct. 1986)
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