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Venality: The Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France
Venality The Sale of Offices in EighteenthCentury France
Author: William Doyle
In early modern France almost all posts of public responsibility could only be acquired by purchase or inheritance. By the eighteenth century there were 70,000 venal offices comprising the entire judiciary, most of the legal profession, officers in the army, and a wide range of other professions. William Doyle, one of the foremost historians of ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198205364
ISBN-10: 0198205368
Publication Date: 1/30/1997
Pages: 368
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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