The Society of Princes: The Lorraine-Guise and the Conservation of Power and Wealth in Seventeenth-Century France by Jonathan Spangler

The Society of Princes: The Lorraine-Guise and the Conservation of Power and Wealth in Seventeenth-Century France

Jonathan Spangler

362 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

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The princes etrangers, or the foreign princes, were an influential group of courtiers in early modern France, who maintained their unofficial status as 'foreigners' due to membership in sovereign ruling families. Arguably the most influential of t...

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