Preserving the monarchy : the comte de Vergennes, 1774-1787 / Munro Price
1995, 1st edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #426330
ISBN: 0521465664
Physical description; xi, 256 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1. Recalled to life -- 2. The question of reform: Turgot, Necker, and Vergennes -- 3. Vergennes as first minister: the comite des finances -- 4. The fall of the comite des finances -- 5. The politics of judicial reform -- 6. The politics of retrenchment, 1783-1785 -- 7. The ministry, its divisions, and the parlement of Paris, 1785-1786 -- 8. The Dutch imbroglio -- 9. Death and posterity. Subjects; Vergennes, Charles Gravier comte de 1719-1787. Vergennes, Charles Gravier comte de. To 1793. Finance, Public France History To 1789. Foreign ministers France ; Biography. Diplomats France ; Biography. Finance, Public France To 1789. Finance, public France To 1789. Diplomatic relations. Diplomats. Finance, Public. Foreign ministers. Politics and government.
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