Embezzlement and high treason in Louis XIV's France the trial of Nicolas Fouquet
Pitts, Vincent J.
Embezzlement and high treason in Louis XIV's France the trial of Nicolas Fouquet - Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2015 - 224p., 4 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.
From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country?s superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped-up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself from all of the major charges over the course of three long years, in the process embarrassing and infuriating Louis XIV. The young king overturned the court?s decision and sentenced Fouquet to lifelong imprisonment in a remote fortress in the Alps.
9781421418247
Fouquet, Nicolas, 1615-1680--Trials, litigation, etc.
345.440PIT
Embezzlement and high treason in Louis XIV's France the trial of Nicolas Fouquet - Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2015 - 224p., 4 unnumbered pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.
From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country?s superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped-up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself from all of the major charges over the course of three long years, in the process embarrassing and infuriating Louis XIV. The young king overturned the court?s decision and sentenced Fouquet to lifelong imprisonment in a remote fortress in the Alps.
9781421418247
Fouquet, Nicolas, 1615-1680--Trials, litigation, etc.
345.440PIT