The Culture of Merit: Nobility, Royal Service, and the Making of Absolute Monarchy in France, 1600-1789 by Jay M. Smith
The Culture of Merit: Nobility, Royal Service, and the Making of Absolute Monarchy in France, 1600-1789
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Jay M. Smith
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The Culture of Merit: Nobility, Royal Service, and the Making of Absolute Monarchy in France, 1600-1789

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization

Jay M. Smith

320 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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The eighteenth century's critique of privilege and its commitment to the idea of advancement by merit are widely regarded as sources of modernity. But if meritocratic values were indeed the product of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, h...

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