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Venality: The Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France by William Doyle

Venality: The Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France

William Doyle

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In early modern France almost all posts of public responsibility could only be acquired by purchase or inheritance. By the eighteenth century there were 70,000 venal offices comprising the entire judiciary, most of the legal profession, officers i...

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