The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: From Feudalism to Enlightenment

by WilliamDoyle (Translator), Guy Chaussinand - Nogaret (Author)

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  1985

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  This work argues that the traditional picture of the pre-revolutionary French nobility as a caste of intransigent reactionaries and parasites is a fabrication of revolutionary propaganda and that the nobility represented all that was most vigorous and forward-looking in 18th-century French society.