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Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642
Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642, 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 French wa, Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642 has a rating of 5 stars
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Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642, 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 French wa, Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642
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  • Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642
  • Written by author David Parrott
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, March 2006
  • 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 French wa
  • A definitive reinterpretation of the role and influence of the French army during Richelieu's ministry. Runner up in the History Today Awards 2002.
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Map 1North-east France, 1635-1642
Map 2Eastern France, 1629-1642
Map 3Alsace, Lorraine and Franche-Comte
Map 4North Italy, 1626-1642
Map 5Languedoc, Roussillon and Catalonia, 1637-1642
Map 6Atlantic France and the Pyrencan frontier, 1627-1638
Introduction: war, government and society in France, 1624-16421
1The French art of war during Richelieu's ministry19
2France at war, 1624-164284
Aims and methods, 1624-163484
The French war-effort, 1635-1642110
3The size of the French army164
4Paying for war225
5Recruiting and maintaining armies during the Thirty Years War: military enterprise277
6The French rejection of entrepreneurship313
7The civil administration of the army: the structures366
The central structure of the war administration367
The administrators with the French army before 1635373
8The management of the war-effort from 1635 to 1642: commissaires des guerres and intendants399
9The ministry and the high command463
10The army and the civilian population505
Conclusion547
Bibliography557
Index579


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