Embezzlement and high treason in Louis XIV's France : the trial of Nicolas Fouquet /
From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country's superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped-up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself from all of the major charges over the c...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2015]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The long reach
- The superintendent at work
- Fall of a Titan
- Setting the stage and writing the script
- The best laid plans of men and ministers
- To do justice without consideration of fortune or self-interest
- A performance beyond comparison
- The honor of conscience of judges
- Aftermath: the price of honor and conscience.