Absolute Monarchy and National Regeneration

Scandals, Loans, and Taxes

Background Reading
Censer and Hunt, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, pp. 9-14, 28-35, .

Discussion: NO DISCUSSION THIS WEEK

Further Reading
David A. Bell, The Cult of the Nation in France (2001).

William Doyle, Venality: The Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France (1996).

Michael Kwass, Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France (2000).

Sarah Maza, Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France (1993).

John Shovlin, The Political Economy of Virtue (2006).

Caroline Weber, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette wore to the French Revolution (2006).

Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, "Marie Antoinette,
Portrait with a Rose" (1785), in the Museum
at the Palace of Versailles