The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century
Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret
Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret 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. Using new research, he argues that the nobility represented all that was most forward-looking in eighteenth-century French society.
- Ean/ISBN: 9780521275903
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