Corruption at the court of the king king. Take -up and falling Nikola Fouquet

The book is an exciting history of take -off and the fall of the head of the financial department of the court of Louis XIV - Nikola Fouquet. A thorough and exciting biographical description of one of the most successful ministers of the court, the student and right hand of Cardinal Mazarini is built on numerous historical sources. The book tells about the corruption mechanisms that existed in France with the connivance of the state, about how the product of the state can become more than the state itself, and the formation of an independent judicial system in pre -revolutionary France.
The book is addressed to historians, lawyers, political scientists, as well as all fans of the history of France