Abstract
This article offers some reflections on the system by which ecclesiastical offices were dispensed in France under Louis XIV. The point of departure is the career of an abbot of the highest aristocratic status: prince Philippe of Lorraine-Harcourt. The aim is to analyse, on the one hand, the possibilities offered by the system for the accumulation of noble estates; on the other hand, the role of the prince-abbot, at the centre of a complex network of relations, as a powerful patron and protector of a religious community, which constituted a judicial entity with its own dynamics.
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