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Article: Hurt, John J. Louis XIV and the Parlements: the Assertion of Royal Authority.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
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- History: Review of New Books
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- September 22, 2002
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Manchester: Manchester University Press 217 pp., $74.95, ISBN 0719062357 Publication Date: March 2002
In the past two decades, revisionist historians have portrayed the absolutist state as ruling Old Regime France by means of collaborative partnership with national and regional elites. Kings such as Louis XIV shared authority with those privileged groups and protected and promoted their social and economic interests in return for their local influence, expertise, and loyalties. John J. Hurt, an associate professor of history at the University of Delaware, seeks to restore the term "absolutism" in describing the political culture of the age of Louis XIV, at least ...