%0 Electronic %0 eBook %A Kettering, Sharon, 1942- %I Oxford University Press %D 1986 %C New York %G Englisch %@ 1-280-52304-2 %@ 0-19-536510-0 %T Patrons, brokers, and clients in seventeenth-century France %U https://eu04.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/uresolver/49HBZ_BIE/openurl?u.ignore_date_coverage=true&portfolio_pid=53322309200006442&Force_direct=true %X This new study of politics and power in seventeenth-century France argues that the French crown centralized its power nationally by changing the way it delegated its royal patronage in the provinces.