Power and Politics in Old Regime France, 1720-1745

Dr. Peter R. Campbell is a Lecturer in History in the School of European Studies, University of Sussex. His other publications include The Ancien Régime in France (Oxford, 1988) and Louis XIV (London, 1993)Peter R. Campbell

• PREFACE The aims of this study; summary of the book. INTRODUCTION: APPROACHES TO POLITICS IN THEANCIEN REGIME Part 1 Politics in a court society 1 THE RISE TO POWER OF ANDRE-HERCULE DE FLEURY 2 THE ACQUISITION OF A MINISTERIAL POST, 1721–3 3 THE MINISTRY OF THE DUC DE BOURBON, 1723–6 4 THE DISGRACING OF BOURBON 5 THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE MINISTRY OF FLEURY 6 THE CONTROL OF PATRONAGE AND POLICY 7 THE POLITICS OF FACTION 8 CONCLUSION TO PART 1: THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF COURT SOCIETY Part 2 Jansenism, politics and the parlement of Paris INTRODUCTION 9 THE PARTI JANSENISTE IN THE 1720s AND 1730s 10 THE PARLEMENT OF PARIS 11 THE CRISIS OF 1730–2: THE GENESIS OF THE CRISIS 12 THE CRISIS OF 1730–2: RESOLVING THE CRISIS 13 MANAGING THE PARLEMENT: 1733–43 AND BEYOND 14 CONCLUSION

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