عنوان

Lawyers and citizens :

(Number (ISBN

0195076702

(Number (ISBN

0195360338

(Number (ISBN

1280442549

(Number (ISBN

1423737733

(Number (ISBN

9780195076707

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9780195360332

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9781280442544

(Number (ISBN

9781423737735

Erroneous ISBN

0195076702

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b789599

Title Proper

Lawyers and citizens :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the making of a political elite in Old Regime France /

First Statement of Responsibility

David A. Bell.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1994.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-271) and index.

Text of Note

Not only were lawyers heavily represented among the men who rose to power in France in 1789, to a large extent, they also shapted the evolution of French political culture under the ancien regime. 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 analyses 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 alientation from the monarchy under the pressure of religious disputes in the early eighteenth, 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.

Title

Lawyers and citizens.

Lawyers-- France-- Paris-- History.

Practice of law-- France-- Paris-- History.

Lawyers.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Essays.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- General.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Government-- National.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Reference.

Politics and government

Practice of law.

France, Politics and government, 1589-1789.

France, Paris.

France.

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POL-- 018000

POL-- 030000

POL-- 032000

POL-- 040000

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Edition

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Book number

Bell, David A., (David Avrom)

Date of Transaction

20201207030217.0

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