@inbook{2507df3f7e6f475d898406d471f33aff,
title = "The fiscal-military constitution of Bourbon France in comparative perspective",
abstract = "Eschewing the notion of France as a {\textquoteleft}fiscal-military state{\textquoteright}, this essay places the fiscal-military constitution of France in comparative perspective, looking at the armed forces, revenue-raising, credit and logistics. It investigates just how effective and efficient the French state was at raising and deploying resources for war in a sustainable fashion and considers the extent to which the fiscal-military constitution allowed the strategic interests and political goals of the monarchs to be met. For all the greater sophistication and increase of human, material and financial resources the French state achieved from the 1660s, it was not enough to meet the strategic demands Louis XIV and Louis XV placed on the armed forces and fiscal machinery in most wars from the 1690s. Yet these pressures not only drained energy from France, the fiscal-military overstretch, and strategic setbacks eventually generated demands for serious reform of the fiscal-military constitution by the Seven Years War, ultimately weakening the foundations of the monarchy.",
keywords = "France, Finances, War, Fiscal-military states, 17th century, 18th century, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Armies, Navies",
author = "Rowlands, {Guy Robert}",
year = "2022",
month = mar,
day = "10",
doi = "10.5871/bacad/9780197267349.003.0003",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780197267349",
series = "Proceedings of the British Academy",
publisher = "OUP/British Academy",
pages = "60--84",
editor = "Godsey, {William D.} and Petr Mat'a",
booktitle = "The Habsburg monarchy as a fiscal-military state",
}