Jonathan Spangler: 1 book
The Society of Princes
The Lorraine-Guise and the Conservation of Power and Wealth in Seventeenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The princes étrangers, or the foreign princes, were an influential group of courtiers in early modern France, who maintained their unofficial status as 'foreigners' due to membership in sovereign ruling families. Arguably the most influential of these were the princes of Lorraine, a sovereign state...
