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Article: Louis XIV and the Parlements: the Assertion of Royal Authority.(Book Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- August 1, 2004
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Louis XIV and the Parlements: The Assertion of Royal Authority, by John J. Hurt. Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2002. xvii, 217 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper).
When Richard Bonney asked the question "Absolutism: What's in a Name?" in 1987, historians were busily revising the way they thought about politics in early modern France. The traditional view had narrated the rise of a powerful centralized state during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a process that culminated in Louis XIV's absolutist monarchy. Over the past three decades scholars have taken this paradigm to task, producing a very different view of the French ...