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Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France
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by David A. Bell
Sales Rank: 1899875
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 304 pages
Published by: Oxford University Press, USA April 14, 1994
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0195076702
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195076707
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
"[V]ery worthwhile study. Its scholarship is impeccable, and the author's command of the literature is most impressivethe range of the major questions involved, as well as of the story provided, makes this work extremely valuable and significant."--Journal of Social History
"This book is a significant contribution to the field of eighteenth-century French history and is solidly based on extensive reading of manuscript and printed sources. The historical profession has been in need of a book on this subject for many years. Given the prominence of lawyers in the revolution of 1789, the professional experience from which they emerged will be a topic of wide interest."--Philip Dawson, Brooklyn College
"This is an important book. The arguments are fresh, the evidence rich, and the writing smooth and lively. The narrative is essential to the analysis. Bell is continually posing questions, and nothing in this superb book is ever irrelevant."--David D. Bien, University of Michigan
"The principle merit of Bell's arresting and richly researched book is to show how Parisian barristers opened up a peculiar and precociously political 'public space' close to the center of Bourbon absolutism during the decades straddling the end of Louis XIV's reign and the beginning of the Orleans regency. Implicitly challenging Jurgen Habermas's influential thesis that modern 'public opinion' expressed itself in art and literature before doing so in politics, Bell's book stands that argument on its head, importantly redirecting discussion about how and when public opinion began to displace the king's `certain science and plenitude of power' in eighteenth-century France. Arguing its case with evidence drawn from institutional, political, and intellectual history, this a superb exercise in all of these genres, as well as an important contribution to the ongoing debate about the ideological origins of the French Revolution."--Dale Van Kley, Calvin College
"Bell marshals an impressive body of research in sources little used until recentlyBell's brief and clearly written study traces well the development of the Parisian Order of Barristers."--Law and History Review
Product Description
David Bell's new book traces the development of the French legal profession between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution, showing how lawyers influenced, and were influenced by, the period's passionate political and religious conflicts. Bell analyzes how these key "middling" figures in French society were transformed from the institutional technicians of absolute monarchy into the self-appointed "voices of public opinion," and leaders of opposition political journalism. He describes the birth of an independent legal profession in the late seventeenth century, its alienation from the monarchy under the pressure of religious disputes in the early eighteenth century, and its transformation into a standard-bearer of "enlightened" opinion in the decades before the Revolution. His work illuminates the workings of politics under a theoretically absolute monarchy, and the importance of long-standing constitutional debates for the ideological origins of the Revolution. It also sheds new light on the development of the modern professions, and of the middle classes in France.
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