Law, Patronage and Municipal Authority in Seventeenth-Century France: The Aftermath of the Lanturelu Revolt in Dijon |
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Authors: | Breen Michael P. |
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Affiliation: | * Michael P. Breen is Assistant Professor of History & Humanities, Reed College, 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland OR 97202, USA. Email: breenm{at}reed.edu. |
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Abstract: | Popular uprisings have attracted the interest of early modernhistorians but the efforts of local elites to manage their consequencesremain largely unexplored. This article examines how Dijonsmunicipality negotiated the aftermath of the 1630 Lanturelurevolt. Following the uprising, Louis XIII curtailed Dijonsprivileges, reorganized its municipality, and ordered it toindemnify the revolts victims. Over time, however, theavocats of Dijons municipal government successfully manipulatedthe Ancien Régimes power networkslaw, localinstitutions and clientage networksto win a restorationof Dijons traditional city government, the reductionof damage claims, acknowledgement of the municipalitysinnocence and reaffirmation of its contested authority. Lanturelusaftermath, often interpreted as an example of the early Bourbonsgrowing control over French cities, thus reveals that the lattercould remain dynamic political centres in the early seventeenthcentury and that the states expanding apparatus couldbe used to contest royal authority, as well as extend it. |
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