@article{1380631,
      author = {Smith, Jay M.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1380631},
      title = {The culture of merit : nobility, royal service, and the  making of absolute monarchy in France, 1600-1789 /},
      publisher = {University of Michigan Press,},
      recid = {1380631},
      pages = {vii, 305 pages ;},
      address = {Ann Arbor :},
      year = {1996},
}