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Edict faict par le roy [Henri II] sur le faict de la creation d'un conseiller dudict seigneur, & general superintendant des deniers communs des villes estans en chascune generalité de son royaume..., et d'un receveur & payeur des juges, magistraulx & presidiaux en chascune des villes ou sont establiez leurs sièges
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Pages : 24
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Édict Faict Par Le Roy Sur Le Faict de la Creation d'Un Conseiller Dudict Seigneur Et General
Author: Henri II
Publisher: Hachette Livre - BNF
ISBN: 9782329263458
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Languages : fr
Pages : 26
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Publisher: Hachette Livre - BNF
ISBN: 9782329263458
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Languages : fr
Pages : 26
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Édict faict par le Roy sur le faict de la création d'un conseiller dudict seigneur et général superintendant des deniers communs des villes estans en chascune généralité de son royaume... et d'un receveur et payeur des gages des juges, magistraulx et présidiaulx en chascune des villes où sont establiz leurs sièges
Author: France
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Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Pages : 24
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The King's Debts
Author: Richard Bonney
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Venality
Author: William Doyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198205364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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In ancien regime France almost all posts of public responsibility had to be bought or inherited. Rather than tax their richer subjects directly, French kings preferred to sell them privileged public offices, which further payments allowed them to sell or bequeath at will. By the eighteenthcentury there were 70,000 venal offices, comprising the entire judiciary, most of the legal profession, officers in the army, and a wide range of other professions - from financiers handling the king's revenues down to auctioneers and even wigmakers. Though now yielding diminishing returns to theking, offices were more in demand than ever for the privileges and prestige, profit and power, that they conferred; and although it was widely accepted that selling public authority was undesirable, nobody imagined that those who had invested in offices could ever be bought out. The Revolutionbrought an unexpected opportunity to do so, but the legacy of venality has marked French institutions down to our day. William Doyle, one of the foremost historians of early modern Europe, has written the first comprehensive history of the last century of venality. He traces the evolution and dissolution of a system which was fundamental to the workings of state and society in France for over threecenturies.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198205364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
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In ancien regime France almost all posts of public responsibility had to be bought or inherited. Rather than tax their richer subjects directly, French kings preferred to sell them privileged public offices, which further payments allowed them to sell or bequeath at will. By the eighteenthcentury there were 70,000 venal offices, comprising the entire judiciary, most of the legal profession, officers in the army, and a wide range of other professions - from financiers handling the king's revenues down to auctioneers and even wigmakers. Though now yielding diminishing returns to theking, offices were more in demand than ever for the privileges and prestige, profit and power, that they conferred; and although it was widely accepted that selling public authority was undesirable, nobody imagined that those who had invested in offices could ever be bought out. The Revolutionbrought an unexpected opportunity to do so, but the legacy of venality has marked French institutions down to our day. William Doyle, one of the foremost historians of early modern Europe, has written the first comprehensive history of the last century of venality. He traces the evolution and dissolution of a system which was fundamental to the workings of state and society in France for over threecenturies.
Édict de la création des estats et offices des contrerolleurs des deniers communs, dons et octrois, en chacun ville ... de ce royaume. [Enregistré au Parlement le 14 mai 1515.] - Édict [de juin 1555] ... sur le faict de la création d'un conseiller du dict ... général superintendant des deniers communs des villes estans en chacune généralité de son royaume ... et d'un receveur et payeur des gages des juges, magistraux et présidiaux en chacune des villes où sont establis leurs sièges. [Enregistré en Parlement le 16 juin et à la Chambre des comptes le 22 juin 1555.].
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French Finances 1770-1795
Author: J. F. Bosher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521077644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The monarchy of Louis XVI suffered revolution and then destruction after failing to settle its financial difficulties. What precisely were those difficulties? In this book, Professor Bosher shows that the monarchy was financed by a chaotic system of private enterprise which proved increasingly unmanageable and wasteful. Hundreds of profit-seeking accountants - 'capitalists', in the language of the time - stood in the way of reform and even of clear accounting until governments of the French Revolution eventually nationalized the financial system and changed it 'from capitalism into a bureaucracy'. From his close study of the administrative changes Professor Bosher concludes that the National Assembly planned to guard the public finances by bureaucratic organization. 'With a vision of mechanical efficiency and articulation', he writes, 'systems of clock-like checks and balances such as eighteenth-century Frenchmen found everywhere, even in nature itself, the revolutionary planners hoped to prevent corruption, putting their faith in the virtues of organization to offset the vices of the individual men.'
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521077644
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The monarchy of Louis XVI suffered revolution and then destruction after failing to settle its financial difficulties. What precisely were those difficulties? In this book, Professor Bosher shows that the monarchy was financed by a chaotic system of private enterprise which proved increasingly unmanageable and wasteful. Hundreds of profit-seeking accountants - 'capitalists', in the language of the time - stood in the way of reform and even of clear accounting until governments of the French Revolution eventually nationalized the financial system and changed it 'from capitalism into a bureaucracy'. From his close study of the administrative changes Professor Bosher concludes that the National Assembly planned to guard the public finances by bureaucratic organization. 'With a vision of mechanical efficiency and articulation', he writes, 'systems of clock-like checks and balances such as eighteenth-century Frenchmen found everywhere, even in nature itself, the revolutionary planners hoped to prevent corruption, putting their faith in the virtues of organization to offset the vices of the individual men.'
Edict faict par le Roy svr le faict de la creation d'vn conseiller dudict seigneur
Author: France. Sovereign (1547-1559 : Henry II)
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Pages : 22
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Pages : 22
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Edict faict par le roy [Henri II], de la création & erection d'un office de garde des seaux, en chascun siege presidial. Avec la taxe que le roy prend pour le droict & emolument du seel des lettres seellées en ses chancelleries
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Pages : 32
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Pages : 32
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Edict du roy [Henri III] contenant création d'un receveur des deniers communs patrimoniaux & d'octroy, en chacune ville & bourg de ce royaume,....
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Publisher: de l
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Pages : 16
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