Polysynodie

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Polysynodie

French history

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Philippe II, duc d’Orléans
…system of conciliar government—known as la polysynodie—designed to destroy the authority of the secretaries of state and restore political power to the high nobility. The new system proved so cumbersome and inefficient that the regent dissolved it in September 1718 and reinstated the secretaries of state.
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…system of conciliar government—known as la polysynodie—designed to destroy the authority of the secretaries of state and restore political power to the high nobility. The new system proved so cumbersome and inefficient that the regent dissolved it in September 1718 and reinstated the secretaries of state.
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