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Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: Guy Rowlands
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The 'personal rule' of Louis XIV witnessed a massive increase in the size of the French army and an apparent improvement in the quality of its officers, its men
The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV
Language: en
Pages: 435
Authors: Guy Rowlands
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-08-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The 'personal rule' of Louis XIV witnessed a massive increase in the size of the French army and an apparent improvement in the quality of its officers, its men
The Military Enlightenment
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The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Christy P
Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV's France
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At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This
The Financial Decline of a Great Power
Language: en
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An examination of the financial decline of Louis XIV's France during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714).