About the book: 2017 / French lawyers, judges and university masters found themselves participants in the seven conflicts discussed in the book. In addition to restoring their historical and biographical circumstances on the basis of archival sources, these conflicts are considered both as legal conflicts, that is, as contradictions between the competencies of various authorities or between different legal acts regulating related relations, and as incidents - complicated cases requiring the use of microhistorical methods research. The chosen perspective allows us to take an inside look at important historical processes: the formation of absolutist ideology, the desire to unify French law, the functioning of royal justice and the implementation of judicial administrative reforms, the spread of reformation ideas and the resulting religious wars, the strengthening of the institution of sale of royal positions. Much attention is paid to the problems of the history of everyday life and family history. But the main questions remain the basic questions of updated social history: social hierarchies and social mobility, the degree of freedom of the individual and group in determining their destiny, ideas about how French society of the 16th century was structured.