Noblesse Au XVIIIe Siècle. Anglais

Noblesse Au XVIIIe Siècle. Anglais

Author: Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1985-05-16

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780521275903

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Contrary to their traditional image as a caste of intransigent reactionaries and parasites, this analysis maintains that pre-revolutionary nobility actually were in the forefront of French economic and intellectual life, and until 1789, at the head of the movement for reform of the old regime.