Vincent Ragot De Beaumont
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Vincent Ragot de Beaumont
Author: Michèle Virol
language: fr
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre
Release Date: 2013-07-23
Vincent Ragot, abbé de Beaumont (1624-1715), eut une vie agitée. Défenseur d’une stricte morale au début de sa vie religieuse, il connaît la notoriété dans la défense d’un prélat de la Contre-Réforme, Nicolas Pavillon, qui refuse de signer le formulaire et combat la prévarication et la violence en Languedoc. Changeant de diocèse, Ragot devient chanoine et chantre de la riche cathédrale de Tournai, dans une province nouvellement annexée, la Flandre. Proche de l’intendant, il combat les abus de l’évêque et du gouverneur, défend les intérêts du chapitre, mais, soupçonné par le marquis de Louvois de protéger Antoine Arnauld, exilé à Bruxelles, il est arrêté et emprisonné. Confessant avoir succombé au péché de chair, il ne peut plus exercer comme prêtre, est déchu de ses titres et fonctions et condamné à la relégation. Connu de Louis XIV et redouté de ses ministres, il continue, dans l’ombre de personnes influentes comme Boisguilbert et Vauban, de débattre et d’écrire, notamment sur la réforme de la fiscalité. «Nègre » de Vauban, il rédige avec lui le Projet d’une dîme royale et corrige ses textes. Acteur des querelles politiques et religieuses du siècle, il est influent dans tous les lieux où il séjourne, Paris, le Languedoc, la Flandre, Rodez et la Normandie. Ce livre, écrit à partir des informations trouvées dans les archives et notamment des correspondances, fait renaître un contemporain de Louis XIV et mieux connaître l’histoire de son règne, appréhendée en suivant un destin singulier.
The Politics of Utopia
Author: Arnaud Orain
language: en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date: 2024-07-17
A fascinating retelling of the first banking and financial collapse in eighteenth-century France. The Scottish economist John Law has been described as the architect of modern central banking. His “System,” established in Regency France between 1716 and 1720, saw the founding of a bank issuing paper money and the establishment of state commercial and colonial enterprises aimed at consolidating public debt. What at first seemed like financial wizardry, however, resulted in rampant speculation and, ultimately, economic collapse. In The Politics of Utopia, historian Arnaud Orain offers a provocative rereading of this well-known episode. Starting his story in the seventeenth century, Orain reconstructs the figures and ideas, long predating Law, that anticipated and laid the groundwork for the System, which, he argues, is best understood as a failed social utopia aimed at the total transformation of society. Overturning familiar narratives of this seismic event, this book rewrites a stunning chapter in economic history by dealing with the cultural, colonial, religious, and political dimensions of the (in)famous System up to the French Revolution, revealing new lessons for today’s fraught financial landscape.
Louis XIV's Assault on Privilege
Author: Gary B. McCollim
language: en
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Release Date: 2012
The government of Louis XIV developed two taxes during the last thirty years of the king's reign that forced the privileged to pay. This book is a study of how those taxes developed and what caused them to be adopted. Louis XIV's Assault on Privilege examines Nicolas Desmaretz, one of the most important finance ministers of the Bourbon monarchy. McCollim brings to life the man who was arguably the central figure in the final transformative years of Louis XIV's reign. Controller General Desmaretz was the nephew of famed finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert and had extensive experience in the administration prior to 1683 when he suffered disgrace. His expertisewas so renowned in his day that other chief financial officials sought his advice in secret. Desmaretz has been called the ablest man ever to head French finances, and the war financing problems he faced from 1708-14 the greatestchallenge faced by the Bourbon monarchy until the French Revolution. Desmaretz became one of the chief financial officials early in the War of the Spanish Succession and took full charge of French finances from 1708-15.In that time, he introduced one of the two most radical financial measures ever taken by the Bourbon monarchy: the dixième, a tax on income. This tax revolutionized the relationship of French elites to the Crown because iteliminated the issue of status that affected all other forms of taxation: the dixième fell on all income, no matter the recipient. The tax lasted until 1717, appeared again during the Wars of the Polish (1733-35) and Austrian (1743-48) Successions, and became permanent, in a reduced form, as the vingtième, in 1749. The story of the dixième has been oddly ignored by fiscal historians. In his rich analysis, McCollim lays outfor historians precisely how the royal financial council actually made policy. His book establishes once and for all that from the perspective of state finance, and state taxation, the post-1710 French monarchy had left far behindthe institutional framework of the seventeenth century. Gary B. McCollim received his doctoral degree in history from The Ohio State University and is a retired federal employee.