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Power, Not Progress: An Alternative Reading of L'Hôpital's Legal Reforms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2010

Amalia D. Kessler
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Law and History Review , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , August 2010 , pp. 837 - 842
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Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 2010

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2. Ibid., 806.

3. Ibid., 809.

4. Ibid., 826.

5. Ibid.

6. Ibid.

7. Ibid.

8. Ibid., 798.

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19. Ibid., 817.

20. Ibid., 815.

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22. Ibid., 26.

23. Ibid., 39.

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