Preserving the Monarchy
The Comte de Vergennes 1774–1787
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- Author: Munro Price, University of Bradford
- Date Published: January 2004
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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.
Read more- An original and important study of the politics of the French monarchy just before the Revolution
- The first detailed study of the Comte de Vergennes as first minister of Louis XVI
- Uses important new archival sources
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"In this excellent book, Munro Price examines Vergennes's role in domestic politics--as distinguished from his career in diplomacy--and explains how experience and growth brought this conservative Burgundian to moderate reform....an impressive command of private and public archival material." American Historical Review
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- Date Published: January 2004
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521527064
- length: 272 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Recalled to life
king, queen, and first minister: the Guines affair
2. The question of reform: Turgot, Necker, and Vergennes
3. Vergennes as first minister: the comité des finances
4. The fall of the comité des finances: the comité and credit policy
the crisis of the caisse d'escompte
the reform of the general farm
conclusion
5. The politics of judicial reform
6. The politics of retrenchment
7. The ministry, its divisions, and the parlement of Paris, 1785–6
the diamond necklace affair
8. The Dutch imbroglio
9. Death and posterity
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