highly-centralized

Updated: June 14, 2025

In the seventeenth century, moreover, France owed much of her national power to a highly-centralized and closely-knit scheme of government. Under Richelieu the strength of the monarchy had been enhanced and the power of the nobility broken.

William Bennett Munro - Crusaders of New France: A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness: Chronicles of America, Volume 4