Exile, imprisonment, or death : the politics of disgrace in Bourbon France, 1610-1789 / Julian Swann.
In 1617, Louis XIII was forced to resort to assassination as punishment, while a century later, Louis XIV needed only to issue a command and the kingdom's most powerful subjects would submit to imprisonment or exile without trial. What were 'politics of disgrace', why did it emerge, w...
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