The French nobility in the eighteenth century : from feudalism to enlightenment / Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret ; translated by William Doyle.
One of the most lively of France's younger historians, Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret argues in this pioneering essay that the traditional picture of the pre-revolutionary French nobility as a caste of intransigent reactionaries and parasites is a fabrication of revolutionary propaganda. Using a whole...
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| Other title: | Noblesse au XVIIIe siècle. English French nobility in the 18th century. |
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| Language: | English French |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1985.
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