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Judicial politics and urban revolt in seventeenth-century France : the Parlement of Aix, 1629-1659 / Sharon Kettering.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Princeton, New Jersey ; Surrey, England : Princeton University Press, (c)1978.Description: 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400869787
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DC801 .J835 1978
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:Subject: Most historical scholarship concerned with the Fronde has investigated the Parlement of Paris. By focusing on the different experience of high court judges in Aix-en-Provence, Sharon Kettering illuminates the causes of resistance to royal authority and offers a new understanding of the role of provincial officials in seventeenth-century revolts. The author shows that political tensions and alignments within the court and provincial capital were as important in causing the revolts at Aix as the judges' relationship with the crown. Describing the liaisons and personalities that gave impetus t.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Most historical scholarship concerned with the Fronde has investigated the Parlement of Paris. By focusing on the different experience of high court judges in Aix-en-Provence, Sharon Kettering illuminates the causes of resistance to royal authority and offers a new understanding of the role of provincial officials in seventeenth-century revolts. The author shows that political tensions and alignments within the court and provincial capital were as important in causing the revolts at Aix as the judges' relationship with the crown. Describing the liaisons and personalities that gave impetus t.

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