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The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670-1789
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2012
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The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670–1789 explores the French monarchy’s role in financing criminal prosecutions in the royal courts of the realm—the payment of criminal frais de justice in the vocabulary of the ancien régime—between 1670 and 1789 (that is, from the codification of criminal judicial procedure in the early period of Louis XIV’s personal rule to the outbreak of the French Revolution). The subject brings together three areas of scholarly inquiry—criminal justice, royal administration, and the management of the crown’s finances. A central goal of the study is to provide factual information and interpretive insights on each of these topics and to explain the relationship of each to the others over a long time period. The book contributes to existing scholarship in four ways. First, although each of the major dimensions of the inquiry—the operation of the criminal justice system, the conduct of the royal administration, and the management of the monarchy’s finances—has a large and increasingly sophisticated historical literature, this is the first study to combine them in a systematic way. Second, the long time period covered in the book not only enables the historian to distinguish gradual from rapid change, but it also allows the reader to view how the system functioned in different historical contexts. Third, the study is based on archival sources throughout France. This comprehensive approach permits the identification of elements of a common experience without sacrificing attention to important aspects of regional diversity. Finally, with respect to the sources themselves, the range is broad, encompassing regulatory acts and decisions of the king’s councils; administrative correspondence at the central, regional, and in some cases local levels; financial accounts and related papers; and court records from the major appellate courts and from several lower courts as well. An appendix of 33 tables lists figures of annual expenditure and other pertinent financial operations for each of the major financial districts of the kingdom.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-1-61149-374-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-61149-375-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
538
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Acknowledgments No access
Money—Distance—Weight No access
Abbreviations No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
The French Monarchy and Criminal “Frais de Justice”: General Considerations No access Pages 5 - 46
The Establishment of Colbert’s System, Mid-1660s–Early 1670s No access Pages 47 - 78
The Implementation of Colbert’s System, 1670–1683 No access Pages 79 - 126
The Financial Records, Mid-1680s–1789 No access Pages 127 - 170
Inside the Numbers, Mid-1680s–1789 No access Pages 171 - 234
Challenges and Refinements, Mid-1680s–Mid-1740s No access Pages 235 - 296
Maturity, Mid-1730s–1789 No access Pages 297 - 384
A Shared Financial Responsibility, 1670s–1789 No access Pages 385 - 444
Final Thoughts No access Pages 445 - 450
Appendix No access Pages 451 - 512
Bibliography No access Pages 513 - 524
Index No access Pages 525 - 536
About the Author No access Pages 537 - 538
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