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

by Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret

Book Overview

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 range of new research and calculations, he argues that the nobility represented all that was most vigorous and forward-looking in eighteenth-century French...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521275903
• ISBN13: 9780521275903
• Release Date: June 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"