Mazarin: The Crisis Of Absolutism In France by Geoffrey Treasure

Mazarin: The Crisis Of Absolutism In France

Geoffrey Treasure

413 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

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When Mazarin became First Minister of France in 1643 he inherited a costly war. Ruinously high taxation, arbitrary and oppressive measures of government and opposition at every level threatened the stability of the state. The king was five years o...

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