Pouvoir royal et institutions dans la France moderne

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State Formation in Early Modern Alsace (1648–1789), by Stephen A. Lazer

Urbanités : vivre, survivre, se divertir dans les villes, XVe-XXe siècle : études en l'honneur de Christine Lamarre

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Compte-rendu de : Marguerite Figeac-Monthus et Stéphanie Lachaud-Martin, Ville et Vin en France et en Europe du xve siècle à nos jours, La Crèche, La Geste-Presses universitaires de Nouvelle Aquitaine, 2021, 314 p.

Strangers and Neighbours: Rural Migration in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy. By Jeremy Hayhoe (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2016) 274 pp. $60.00

Much ado about nothing? The intendant, the gentilshommes and the investigations into nobility in Burgundy (1664-1670)

In 1664 Louis XIV did not spare the Burgundian nobles where furnishing proof of their entitlement to nobility was concerned. His quest for usurpers, which occurred throughout the French kingdom, generated severe misgivings among the gentilshommes, those nobles who had the right to sit in the provincial estates and feared that members of their Chambre would suffer pointless harassment. However, the process was conducted in an unexpectedly lenient manner, demonstrating that royal authority—through its local representative, the intendant Claude Bouchu—could be employed in a conciliatory fashion. The monarchical system, negotiated as much as imposed, should be understood within the framework of…