Author: Paul Sonnino
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442253649
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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The Search for the Man in the Iron Mask triumphantly solves an enduring puzzle that has stumped historians for centuries and seduced novelists and filmmakers to this day. Who was the man who was rumored to have been kept in prison and treated royally during much of the reign of Louis XIV while being forced to wear an iron mask? Could he possibly have been the twin brother of the Sun King? Like every other serious scholar, intrepid historian Paul Sonnino discounts this theory, instead taking the reader along on his adventures to uncover the truth behind this ancient enigma. Exploring the hidden, squalid side of the lavish court of France, the author uncovers the full spectrum of French society, from humble servants to wealthy merchants to kings and queens. All had self-interested reasons to hold their secrets close until one humble valet named Eustache Dauger was arrested and jailed for decades, simply because he knew too much and opened his mouth at the wrong time. Presenting his dramatic solution to the mystery, Sonnino convincingly shows that no one will be able to tell the story of the man in the iron mask without taking into account the staggering array of evidence he has uncovered over the course of decades.
The Search for the Man in the Iron Mask
Edict port. creation de trois offices de conseillers receveurs payeurs des gages et droicts des tresoriers de France
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Edict Dv Roy, Portant Creation De trois Offices de Cos̃eillers Receueurs Payeurs des Gages & droicts des Tresoriers de France, & trois Conseillers Receueurs Payeurs des Gages & droicts des Officiers des Elections
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Pages : 22
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Edict Du Roy, Portant Creation De trois Offices de Coseillers Receueurs Payeurs des Gages & droicts des Tresoriers de France, & trois Conseillers Receueurs Payeurs des Gages & droicts des Officiers des Elections. Avec attribution ausdits Receueurs & Payeurs de six deniers pour livre de taxation à eux hereditairement attribuez par le present Edict
Author: Antoine Estienne
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Languages : fr
Pages : 16
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Pages : 16
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Edict du roy contenant la creation de trois offices de receueurs payeurs des gages & droicts des tresoriers de France, & de trois autres receueurs payeurs des gages & droicts des officiers des elections & droicts hereditaires nouuellement alienez
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Pages : 44
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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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Correspondence
Author: Voltaire
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Edict Du Roy Portant Creation de Trois Offices de Receueurs Et Payeurs Des Gages Des Tresoriers de France, En Chacun Des Bureaux Des Finances de Thoulouze Et Beziers; Et d'Un Greffier Et Maistre Clerc Triennal Esdits Bureaux
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ISBN: 9780243911790
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Pages : 28
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Excerpt from Edict du Roy Portant Creation de Trois Offices de Receueurs Et Payeurs des Gages des Tresoriers de France, en Chacun des Bureaux des Finances de Thoulouze Et Beziers; Et d'un Greffier Et Maistre Clerc Triennal Esdits Bureaux: Verifié en la Chambre des Comptes le Dernier Decembre 1629 Portant creation ÿ de trois Offices de Reoeueurs Payeurs des gages des Treforiers de France, en chacun des Bureaux' des Finances de Thoulouze Beziers; Et. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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ISBN: 9780243911790
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Pages : 28
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Excerpt from Edict du Roy Portant Creation de Trois Offices de Receueurs Et Payeurs des Gages des Tresoriers de France, en Chacun des Bureaux des Finances de Thoulouze Et Beziers; Et d'un Greffier Et Maistre Clerc Triennal Esdits Bureaux: Verifié en la Chambre des Comptes le Dernier Decembre 1629 Portant creation ÿ de trois Offices de Reoeueurs Payeurs des gages des Treforiers de France, en chacun des Bureaux' des Finances de Thoulouze Beziers; Et. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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.
Il Pastor Fido
Author: G. B. Boschini Battista Guarini
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Category : History
Languages : en
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