TY - BOOK AU - Spangler,Jonathan TI - The society of princes: the Lorraine-Guise and the conservation of power and wealth in seventeenth-century France SN - 9780754658603 (alk. paper) U1 - 944.033 PY - 2009/// CY - Farnham, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Nobility KW - France KW - Court and courtiers KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-327) and index; 1 Introducing the Foreign Princes 2 The Lorraine-Guise Dynastic Identity: History, Image, Property and Display 3 At Court: Lorraines and Royal Favour 4 The Corporate Merger: Marriage Alliances, Contracts and Widowhood 5 Lorraines in the Courts: Successions and the French Judiciary 6 Being Everywhere ... in the South: Provincial Interests in the Vivarais 7 Lorraines on the Borders and in the Service of Foreign Monarchs ER -