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A World of Paper: Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State

By John Rule, Ben Trotter
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$65.00
By John Rule, Ben Trotter
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Historians and social scientists have long identified bureaucracy as the modern state's foundation and the reign of France's Louis XIV as a model for its development. A World of Paper offers a fresh interpretation of bureaucracy through a close examination of the department of the Sun King's last foreign secretary, Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy.

Torcy, who served as foreign secretary from 1696-1715, is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant foreign ministers of the ancien regime. Buil...

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