An historical account of the antient parliaments of France, or States-general of the kingdom : in fourteen letters, shewing the quality of the members that composed those assemblies, the form of their deliberations and proceedings, the vast extent of their power, their most celebrated judgments, the characters of the princes that called them, from Charlemagne to Louis XI, and the several perfidious artifices and steps of the French kings and their ministers, for gradually reducing the nation from a plenitude, to its present state of servitude and slavery

to which is added a chronological abridgment of the history of France under the reigns of the kings of the first race

Boulainvilliers, Henri comte de