Description: Note on the Guides to Further Reading Introduction Part 1 - The King 1. The Education of the King 2. The Education of Kings in the Seventeenth Century 3. The Education of Kings in the Eighteenth Century 4. The King's Work Part 2 - Public Office 5. Officeholders 6. The Commissaires 7. The Fermiers 8. The Functionaries Conclusion to Part 2. The Rivalry between the Officeholders and the Commissaires: The "Three-Hundred-Year Process" Part 3 - Government "par Grand Conseil" 9. The Royal Family: The Princes of the Blood, the Appanages, the Regencies 10. The Dukes-and-Peers, the High Crown 11. Chancellors, Councils, and Ministers from 1598 to 1661 12. The Surintendant des Finances, the Contrleur Gnral des Finances , and Their Departments 13. Government by Grand Conseil : The Estates General 14. Government by Grand Conseil : The Assemblies of Notables Part 4 - The Sovreign and Lower Courts of Law and Administration 16. The Judicial Hierarchy and the Competence of the Courts 17. Professional and Social Status in the Courts and Administration 18. Procedures in the Sovreign and Lower Courts Part 5 - The United General Farms of the King's Domains and Rights 19. Tax Farming 20. The Concentration of the Farms before 1726 21. The Fermes Gnrales from 1726 to 1791 Part 6 - The King's Commissaires 22. Governors 23. Commissaires 24. The "Chambres de Justice" 25. The "Grands Jours" 26. The Intendants des Provinces Part 7 - The Emergence of a Bureaucracy 27. The Corps des Ponts et Chauses 28. The Engineers of the Corps des Fortifications Part 8 - The Battle between the Officeholders and the Commissaires: A Dispute That Lasted Three Hundred Years 29. Henri IV, Victor 30. From the Accession of Louis XIII to the Fronde 31. The Fronde and Its Failure 32. The Personal Government of Louis XIV, 1661-1715 33. The Eighteenth Century: Officeholders versus Commissaires under Louis XV and Louis XVI Conclusion Glossary Index

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