Based on years of research in the National Archives of France as well as local archives, this book surveys scholarship on various aspects of political culture. It stresses the importance of evaluating Languedoc in the economic and administrative context.
The old regime province of Languedoc provides the setting for Stephen Millers rich analysis of state and society relations in eighteenth-century France. Continuing where William Beiks pathbreaking seventeenth-century study ends, this book sheds new light on the origins of the French Revolution and the social and political developments thereafter.
