by WilliamDoyle (Author)
Describes how the French revolutionaries tried to abolish the nobility, analysing the intellectual roots of hostility to nobles, the steps by which revolutionaries turned against aristocracy, the impact of persecution, emigration, confiscation, and Terror, and the long-term consequences of these developments for the nobility.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 09 Apr 2009
ISBN 10: 0199559856
ISBN 13: 9780199559855