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Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary B. McCollim
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580464149
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Louis XIV's Assault on Privilege written by Gary B. McCollim and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The government of Louis XIV developed two taxes during the last thirty years of the king's reign that forced the privileged to pay. This book is a study of how those taxes developed and what caused them to be adopted. Louis XIV's Assault on Privilege examines Nicolas Desmaretz, one of the most important finance ministers of the Bourbon monarchy. McCollim brings to life the man who was arguably the central figure in the final transformative years of Louis XIV's reign. Controller General Desmaretz was the nephew of famed finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert and had extensive experience in the administration prior to 1683 when he suffered disgrace. His expertisewas so renowned in his day that other chief financial officials sought his advice in secret. Desmaretz has been called the ablest man ever to head French finances, and the war financing problems he faced from 1708-14 the greatestchallenge faced by the Bourbon monarchy until the French Revolution. Desmaretz became one of the chief financial officials early in the War of the Spanish Succession and took full charge of French finances from 1708-15.In that time, he introduced one of the two most radical financial measures ever taken by the Bourbon monarchy: the dixième, a tax on income. This tax revolutionized the relationship of French elites to the Crown because iteliminated the issue of status that affected all other forms of taxation: the dixième fell on all income, no matter the recipient. The tax lasted until 1717, appeared again during the Wars of the Polish (1733-35) and Austrian (1743-48) Successions, and became permanent, in a reduced form, as the vingtième, in 1749. The story of the dixième has been oddly ignored by fiscal historians. In his rich analysis, McCollim lays outfor historians precisely how the royal financial council actually made policy. His book establishes once and for all that from the perspective of state finance, and state taxation, the post-1710 French monarchy had left far behindthe institutional framework of the seventeenth century. Gary B. McCollim received his doctoral degree in history from The Ohio State University and is a retired federal employee.
Author : Anatole France
Publisher : 谷月社
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Clio written by Anatole France and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BARD OF KYME Along the hill-side he came, following a path which skirted the sea. His forehead was bare, deeply furrowed and bound by a fillet of red wool. The sea-breeze blew his white locks over his temples and pressed the fleece of a snow-white beard against his chin. His tunic and his feet were the colour of the roads which he had trodden for so many years. A roughly made lyre hung at his side. He was known as the Aged One, and also as the Bard. Yet another name was given him by the children to whom he taught poetry and music, and many called him the Blind One, because his eyes, dim with age, were overhung by swollen lids, reddened by the smoke of the hearths beside which he was wont to sit when he sang. But his was no eternal night, and he was said to see things invisible to other men. For three generations he had been wandering ceaselessly to and fro. And now, having sung all day to a King of Ægea, he was returning to his home, the roof of which he could already see smoking in the distance; for now, after walking all night without a halt for fear of being overtaken by the heat of the day, in the clear light of the dawn he could see the white Kyme, his birthplace. With his dog at his side, leaning on his crooked staff, he walked with slow steps, his body upright, his head held high because of the steepness of the way leading down into the narrow valley and because he was still vigorous in his age. The sun, rising over the mountains of Asia, shed a rosy light over the fleecy clouds and the hill-sides of the islands that studded the sea. The coast-line glistened. But the hills that stretched away eastward, crowned with mastic and terebinth, lay still in the freshness and the shadow of night. The Aged One measured along the incline the length of twelve times twelve lances and found, on the left, between the flanks of twin rocks, the narrow entrance to a sacred wood. There, on the brink of a spring, rose an altar of unhewn stones....
Author : Charles Drazin
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0786726466
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Outshone the Sun King written by Charles Drazin and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2008-10-20 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late in 1664, the musketeer D'Artagnan rode beside a carriage as it left Paris, carrying his friend Nicolas Fouquet to life imprisonment in a cell next door to the Man in the Iron Mask. From a glorious zenith as Louis XIV's first minister and Cardinal Mazarin's proté and eventual protector; builder of the stunningly opulent chateau of Vaux-le-Vicomte; and patron of the arts and lover of beautiful women, Fouquet had suffered a wretched decline. The story of the rise and fall of Nicolas Fouquet is both compelling and unforgettable. Charles Drazin's beautifully written and vivid account brings to life Fouquet's remarkable gains in fortune, influence, and power, as well as the lavish and hazardous world of the royal court in seventeenth-century France.
Author : Alan Benjamin Cheales
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Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Nicolas Fouquet, Viscount of Melun and of Vaux ... with Some Extracts from His Work, "Les Conseils de la Sagesse". written by Alan Benjamin Cheales and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anatole France
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Clio written by Anatole France and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Swann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019878869X
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Exile, Imprisonment, Or Death written by Julian Swann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the accession of Louis XIII in 1610 following the assassination of his father, the Bourbon dynasty stood on unstable foundations. For all of Henri IV's undoubted achievements, he had left his son a realm that was still prey to the ambitions of an aristocracy that possessed independentmilitary force and was prepared to resort to violence and vendetta in order to defend its interests and honour. To establish his personal authority, Louis XIII was forced to resort to conspiracy and murder, and even then his authority was constantly challenged. Yet a little over a century later, asthe reign of Louis XIV drew to a close, such disobedience was impossible. Instead, a simple royal command expressing the sovereign's disgrace was sufficient to compel the most powerful men and women in the kingdom to submit to imprisonment or internal exile without a trial or an opportunity tojustify their conduct, abandoning their normal lives, leaving families, careers, offices, and possessions behind in obedience to their sovereign.To explain that transformation, this volume examines the development of this new "politics of disgrace", why it emerged, how it was conceptualised, the conventions that governed its use, and reactions to it, not only from the perspective of the monarch and his noble subjects, but also the greatcorporations of the realm and the wider public. Although that new model of disgrace proved remarkably successful, influencing the ideas and actions of the dominant social elites, it was nevertheless contested, and the critique of disgrace connects to the second aim of this work, which is to useshifting attitudes to the practice as a means of investigating the nature of Ancien Regime political culture and some of the dramatic and profound changes it experienced in the years separating Louis XIII's dramatic seizure of power from the French Revolution.
Author : Roxanne Decker Lalande
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638248
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (382 download)
Download or read book A Labor of Love written by Roxanne Decker Lalande and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this edition is to bring together for the first time a significant number of critical analyses on Marie-Catherine Desjardins by prominent scholars in a full-length study devoted to the full range of genres. The essays in this volume analyze a reasonable range of the author's works - novels, plays, letters, short stories - and demonstrate an impressive knowledge of the historical contexts - biographical, literary, social, and political - influencing Villedieu. The authors engage in textual analysis informed by relevant scholarship on Desjardins and on other seventeenth-century writers."--Jacket.
Author : Sara E. Chapman
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580461535
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Private Ambition and Political Alliances written by Sara E. Chapman and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara Chapman focuses on the Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain family to provide a broad study of institutions & political authority in the early modern French state from 1670 to 1715.
Author : Anatole France
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Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Clio & The Chȧteau de Vaux-le-Vicomte written by Anatole France and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Presses de l'Université Laval
ISBN 13 : 2763702228
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (637 download)
Download or read book La vie de Michel de Marillac (1560-1632) written by and published by Presses de l'Université Laval. This book was released on 2007-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Vie de Michel de Marillac, written by his devoted friend Nicolas Lefèvre de Lezeau, is here presented for the first time in its integrity. Important homme d’état, Michel de Marillac (1560-1632) served the French Crown as councillor in the Parlement de Paris, maître des requêtes under Henry IV, and conseiller du roi under Louis XIII. Become a conseiller d’état, he was named Surintendant des finances (from August 1624 to June 1626), then Garde des Sceaux until his disgrace in mid-November 1630, after the famous Day of Dupes. By his intelligence, energy, experience and probity, he was one of the most significant figures in the reign of Louis XIII. Marillac was the principal author of the Ordonnance de 1629, the largest ever codification of French law, which was known familiarly by his name: the “Code Michau”. Chief of the dévot party, he was among the most influential lay persons active in the establishment in France of the Reformed Carmelites (1602-1604), the Ursulines (1610) and the Oratorians (1611). He achieved one of the best translations of Thomas à Kempis’s Imitation of Christ and a translation of the Psalms, and was the author of several other scholarly works.
Author : Jean-Pierre Clement
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465535772
Total Pages : 927 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Histoire de La Vie et de L'Administration de Colbert written by Jean-Pierre Clement and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Tate
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429508441
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Designed Landscapes written by Alan Tate and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed Landscapes is a case-by-case study of 37 significant, existing works of landscape design worldwide, largely constructed since the Renaissance. Being an informative and easy-to-read reference volume for practitioners and students alike, it presents key precedents in landscape architecture using site plans and recent photographs to showcase each project. Organised and presented in 12 sections based on project type, each project is examined based on date, previous site condition, designer(s), design intentions, current composition, unique features, ownership and management, and comparable projects. Each chapter offers an insightful critique of the featured projects. Written by the authors of Great City Parks, the book posits that these carefully selected key projects have maintained their status throughout the ages because they express values and design intentions that continue to inform the practice of the landscape architecture in the present day. The book concludes with a ten-point summary of lessons for professional practice gleaned from the studies. Including a wide range of case studies from countries including many in western Europe, the United States, Canada, India, Japan and China, and lavishly illustrated with over 200 full-colour images, the book is a must-have volume for anyone interested in the history and current practice of landscape architecture.
Author : Anatole France
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Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Works, in an English Translation written by Anatole France and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Will Durant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451647654
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Age of Louis XIV written by Will Durant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Civilization, Volume VIII: A history of European civilization in the period of Pascal, Moliere, Cromwell, Milton, Peter the Great, Newton, and Spinoza: 1648-1715. This is the eighth volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series.
Author : Paul N. Balchin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000834867
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Paris written by Paul N. Balchin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new perspective on French architecture, describing the impact of political history on the architectural development of Paris. Through various stages in history from the Roman to the Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern and Modern, Paris: The Shaping of the French Capital shows how the immense political power of monarchs, the aristocracy and church determined the pace and volume of building in Paris and the extent of town planning. Whereas many other great cities owe their historic importance to trade, and to local government (the City of London being a supreme example), these attributes were largely absent in Paris (throughout most of its history it didn’t even have a mayor). Arguably, because of this, gradually over the centuries the French capital emerged as one of the world’s most beautiful cities, and now is a metropolis with a population in excess of 2 million.
Author : Craig Moyes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351192892
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Furetiere's Roman Bourgeois and the Problem of Exchange: Titular Economies written by Craig Moyes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'If Furetiere (1619-1688) hadn't been friends with Racine and Boileau, if he hadn't been famous for his Dictionary and for his battle with the Academie Francaise, it is unlikely that we would still be speaking of the Roman bourgeois (1666). Its qualities are decidedly few. One cannot even say in its favour that it bears witness to a period and a moment in our literary history.' So writes Antoine Adam in his magisterial history of 17th-century French literature. But whatever one might feel about the aesthetic value of the Roman bourgeois - and following Adam it is usually classified as a precocious though failed example of narrative realism, sadly out of step with the classicism of its time - can we really say that it bears no witness to its period? Craig Moyes shows on the contrary how, within the disarticulated narrative of the Roman bourgeois, Furetiere - the titular abbot, the sitting academician, the secret lexicographer, the experimental novelist - was uniquely placed to explore a changing literary economy marked most spectacularly by the trial of Nicolas Fouquet (1661-1664), the decline of aristocratic largesse, and the subsequent centralization of artistic patronage around the personal reign of Louis XIV and the new administration of Colbert."
