The end of a golden age or the implosion of a false absolutism? The Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia from absolutism to revolution, 1685-1814

Broers MG

Edited by:

Swann, J, Félix, J

28 March 2013

Chapter

Book Title:

The Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy: France from Old Regime to Revolution

Volume:

184

OUP/British Academy

pp.

45 - 62

This book brings together an international team of scholars from Britain, France and North America to examine the causes of the breakdown of the absolute monarchy in eighteenth-century France and offers a new interpretation of the origins ...

Keywords:

History