Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642 by David Parrott

Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History

David Parrott

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It is assumed widely that "war made the state" in seventeenth-century France. Yet this study challenges the traditional interpretations of the role of the army as an instrument of the emerging absolutist state, and shows how the expansion of the F...

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