First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.'Dr Peter Campbell is to be congratulated on a bold, important and learned work'Literary Review
'[Peter Campbell] has given a valuable synthesis of recent work on seventeenth-century France' Times Literary Supplement
'Bulges with stimulating insights and bright ideas.' French History
'A rare snapshot of how high politics actually worked ... With this manual in hand the reader could survive at the court of Louis XV - and probably score.' History Today