Preserving the monarchy : the comte de Vergennes, 1774-1787 /

The comte de Vergennes is best known as one of the great foreign ministers of modern French history, but for much of the 1780s he was also first minister in all but name. This 1995 book was the first to deal in depth with the critical part he played in French domestic policies on the eve of the Revo...

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Tác giả chính: Price, Munro
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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Mục lục:
  • 1. Recalled to life
  • 2. The question of reform: Turgot, Necker, and Vergennes
  • 3. Vergennes as first minister: the comite des finances
  • 4. The fall of the comite des finances
  • 5. The politics of judicial reform
  • 6. The politics of retrenchment, 1783-1785
  • 7. The ministry, its divisions, and the parlement of Paris, 1785-1786
  • 8. The Dutch imbroglio
  • 9. Death and posterity.