Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy: The Estates General of Burgundy, 1661-1790.(Book review)

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Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy: The Estates General of Burgundy, 1661-1790. By Julian Swann. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. 460. $85.00.)

After rehearsing the necessary but hoary debate about absolutism, the author of this book presents a brilliantly researched study of a provincial estates general in the eighteenth century that sheds light on all aspects of the constituted powers in Burgundy. Chapters on the membership; opening ceremonial; and relations with the Crown, the parlement, the Church, the city governments (especially Dijon and Auxerre), ...

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