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The knight takes his cause before the teenage King Charles VI, the highest judge in France. Amid Le Gris's vociferous claims of innocence and doubts about the now pregnant Marguerite's charges (and ...
Venality : the sale of offices in eighteenth-century France by Doyle, William, 1942- Publication date 1996 Topics Sale of public office -- France -- History -- 18th century, France -- Politics and ...