The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: From Feudalism to Enlightenment by Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret

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

Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret

204 pages • first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 fabric...

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