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Lawyers and Citizens - David A. Bell

Lawyers and Citizens

The Making of a Political Élite in Old Regime France

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
1994
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-507670-7 (ISBN)
CHF 139,10 inkl. MwSt
Argues that French lawyers of the ancient regime played a critical role in shaping the French Revolution. The author explores how these critics challenged the King and created discussion within the legal system itself, forming a kind of republic within the state.
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 régime. 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.
Erscheint lt. Verlag 28.7.1994
Zusatzinfo halftones
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 161 x 241 mm
Gewicht 699 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
ISBN-10 0-19-507670-2 / 0195076702
ISBN-13 978-0-19-507670-7 / 9780195076707
Zustand Neuware
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