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Embezzlement and High Treason in Louis XIV´s France: The Trial of Nicolas Fouquet
Vincent J. Pitts
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Hardback. Pitts uses the trial as a lens through which to explore the inner workings of the court of Louis XIV, who rightly feared that Fouquet would expose the tawdry financial dealings of the king's late mentor and prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 454.
From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country's superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself from all of the major charges over the course of three long years, in the process embarrassing and infuriating Louis XIV. The young king overturned the court's decision and sentenced Fouquet to lifelong imprisonment in a remote fortress in the Alps. A dramatic critique of absolute monarchy in pre-revolutionary France, Embezzlement and High Treason in Louis XIV's France tells the gripping tale ... Read more
From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country's superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself from all of the major charges over the course of three long years, in the process embarrassing and infuriating Louis XIV. The young king overturned the court's decision and sentenced Fouquet to lifelong imprisonment in a remote fortress in the Alps. A dramatic critique of absolute monarchy in pre-revolutionary France, Embezzlement and High Treason in Louis XIV's France tells the gripping tale ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421418247
SKU
V9781421418247
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About Vincent J. Pitts
Vincent J. Pitts teaches at Quinnipiac University. He is the author of Henri IV of France: His Reign and Age, La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France: 1627-1693, and The Man Who Sacked Rome: Charles de Bourbon, Constable of France (1490-1527).
Reviews for Embezzlement and High Treason in Louis XIV´s France: The Trial of Nicolas Fouquet
A fine book. It is a compelling account of a political drama in mid-seventeenth century France, but it is also a window into the process by which rule of law gradually became established...[and] I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. EH.Net ... Pitts gives us a well-organized, concise narrative of what amounts to a highly extractive economy whereby the few at the ... Read more