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Preserving the Monarchy: The Comte de Vergennes 1774 1787

Preserving the Monarchy: The Comte de Vergennes 1774 1787

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Hardcover

French History

ISBN10: 0521465664
ISBN13: 9780521465663
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 26 1995
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
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 is the first book to deal in depth with the critical part he played in French domestic policies on the eve of the Revolution. His financial reforms, fully examined here, were the last attempt to restructure the monarchy in accordance with its traditional principles. The failure of this undertaking accelerated the final collapse of the royal government. This study is based on important new archival material, as well as on established sources which are often reinterpreted here.

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