TY - BOOK ID - 1908046 TI - Lawyers and citizens : the making of a political elite in Old Regime France PY - 1994 SN - 0195076702 PB - New York Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Lawyers KW - Practice of law KW - History KW - History. KW - History of France KW - anno 1500-1799 KW - France KW - -Practice of law KW - -Law KW - Law practice KW - Law KW - Advocates KW - Attorneys KW - Bar KW - Barristers KW - Jurists KW - Legal profession KW - Solicitors KW - Representation in administrative proceedings KW - Practice KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Politics and government KW - -Lawyers KW - Pʻŭrangsŭ KW - Frankrig KW - Francja KW - Frant︠s︡ii︠a︡ KW - Prantsusmaa KW - Francia (Republic) KW - Tsarfat KW - Tsorfat KW - Franḳraykh KW - Frankreich KW - Fa-kuo KW - Faguo KW - Франция KW - French Republic KW - République française KW - Peurancih KW - Frankryk KW - Franse Republiek KW - Francland KW - Frencisc Cynewīse KW - فرنسا KW - Faransā KW - Franza KW - Republica Franzesa KW - Gallia (Republic) KW - Hyãsia KW - Phransiya KW - Fransa KW - Fransa Respublikası KW - Franse KW - Францыя KW - Frantsyi︠a︡ KW - Французская Рэспубліка KW - Frantsuzskai︠a︡ Rėspublika KW - Parancis KW - Pransya KW - Franis KW - Francuska KW - Republika Francuska KW - Bro-C'hall KW - Френска република KW - Frenska republika KW - França KW - República Francesa KW - Pransiya KW - Republikang Pranses KW - Γαλλία KW - Gallia KW - Γαλλική Δημοκρατία KW - Gallikē Dēmokratia KW - فرانسه KW - Farānsah KW - צרפת KW - רפובליקה הצרפתית KW - Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit KW - פראנקרייך KW - 法国 KW - 法蘭西共和國 KW - Falanxi Gongheguo KW - フランス KW - Furansu KW - フランス共和国 KW - Furansu Kyōwakoku KW - Francija KW - Ranska KW - Frankrike KW - Paris (France) KW - 1589-1789 KW - Lawyers - France - Paris - History. KW - Practice of law - France - Paris - History. KW - France - Politics and government - 1589-1789. KW - Persons KW - JURISTES KW - DROIT KW - FRANCE KW - PRATIQUE KW - POLITIQUE ET GOUVERNEMENT KW - 18E SIECLE UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1908046 AB - David Bell's new book traces the development of the French legal profession between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution, showing how lawyers influenced, and were influenced by, the period's passionate political and religious conflicts. Bell analyzes how these key ""middling"" figures in French society were transformed from the institutional technicians of absolute monarchy into the self-appointed ""voices of public opinion,"" and leaders of opposition political journalism. He describes the birth of an independent legal profession in the late seventeenth century, its alienation fro ER -