Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Recalled to life
- 2 The question of reform: Turgot, Necker, and Vergennes
- 3 Vergennes as first minister: the comité des finances
- 4 The fall of the comité des finances
- 5 The politics of judicial reform
- 6 The politics of retrenchment, 1783–1785
- 7 The ministry, its divisions, and the parlement of Paris, 1785–1786
- 8 The Dutch imbroglio
- 9 Death and posterity
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Recalled to life
- 2 The question of reform: Turgot, Necker, and Vergennes
- 3 Vergennes as first minister: the comité des finances
- 4 The fall of the comité des finances
- 5 The politics of judicial reform
- 6 The politics of retrenchment, 1783–1785
- 7 The ministry, its divisions, and the parlement of Paris, 1785–1786
- 8 The Dutch imbroglio
- 9 Death and posterity
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Preserving the MonarchyThe Comte de Vergennes 1774–1787, pp. xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995