Officier Moyen De Justice And The Absolute Monarchy In Early Modern France

"Officier Moyen"is an important part of the early modern French bureaucracy.In the case of judicial officials,"Officier Moyen"is distributed among the local jurisdictions,occupying the core leadership positions.Judicial officials have a good family background,a high level of culure and a mass of financial resources,which provide them with the basis for furtheradvancement among the city leaders.The 16th century to the first half of the 17th century was the golden age of 'officier moyen",they built a solid network of "patron-client" relations by virtue of their blood and marriages.Faced with this situation,the king had to cooperate with local officials to establish a relatively harmonious "social cooperation" relationship.But the cooperation relationship between the two sides in the second half of the 17th century had faced with a great challenge.Because of excessive tax pressure coupled with the unexpected economic crisis,most of the officials were on the verge of bankruptcy.At the same time,the strengthening of the absolute monarchy during the period of Louis XIV also seriously threatened the "officier moyen,the "patron-client" network gradually disintegrated.In the middle of the eighteenth century,judicial officials had to sell their positions under the dual pressures of financial crisis and the intervention of the Intendants.On the eve of the French Revolution,in order to regain its lost social status,the group had launched a"self-help" campaign,but it ended in failure.