Download or read book Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy written by Julian Swann and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to study the history of the Estates General of Burgundy during the classic period of absolute monarchy. It sheds new light on the government of Louis XIV, the history of Burgundy and the wider political history of eighteenth-century France.