Embezzlement and High Treason Louis XIV's France

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  • Author : Vincent J. Pitts
  • Release Date : 2015-11-05
  • Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 378
  • ISBN 13 : 1421418258
  • File Size : 19,19 MB
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Embezzlement and High Treason Louis XIV's France by Vincent J. Pitts PDF Summary

Book Description: A look at life in the court of King Louis XIV, the politics of the time, and the trial of a man who knew too much for his own good. From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country’s superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped-up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself from all the major charges over the course of three long years, in the process embarrassing and infuriating Louis XIV. The young king overturned the court’s decision and sentenced Fouquet to lifelong imprisonment in a remote fortress in the Alps. A dramatic critique of absolute monarchy in pre-revolutionary France, Embezzlement and High Treason in Louis XIV’s France tells the gripping tale of an overly ambitious man who rose rapidly in the state hierarchy—then overreached. Vincent J. Pitts uses the trial as a lens through which to explore the inner workings of the court of Louis XIV, who rightly feared that Fouquet would expose the tawdry financial dealings of the king’s late mentor and prime minister, Cardinal Mazarin. “A compelling account of a political drama in mid-seventeenth century France, but it is also a window into the process by which rule of law gradually became established . . . [and] I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.” —EH.Net “Pitts’s book examines the show trial of Fouquet, and...the political process that created such an unfair outcome for a man who is often seen as one of the most well-known scapegoats in French history. Pitts has succeeded masterfully in weaving a powerful narrative that exposes convoluted corruption and mismanagement of ancient régime France.” —Renaissance Quarterly

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