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Patrons, Brokers, and Clients in Seventeenth-Century France
Author(s): Sharon Kettering (Author)
- Publisher: OUP USA
- Publication Date: 4 Sept. 1986
- Language: English
- Print length: 332 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195036735
- ISBN-13: 9780195036732
Book Description
Professor Kettering argues that the central government in Paris strengthened its power by changing the way it distributed royal patronage in the provinces.
Editorial Reviews
Review
No study of Old Regime patronage has dealt with a comparable collection of materials, and none has looked with such care at the complex emotions and interests that made up the patronage bond….The most complete and most insightful reconstitution that we have had of how patronage worked in early modern France. ― Journal of Modern History
From the Back Cover
Professor Kettering argues that the central government in Paris strengthened its power by changing the way it distributed royal patronage in the provinces.
