TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pitts, Vincent J.
TI  - Embezzlement and high treason in Louis XIV's France: the trial of Nicolas Fouquet
SN  - 9781421418247
U1  - 345.440PIT 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Fouquet, Nicolas, 1615-1680--Trials, litigation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -