ISBN:
9780511622236
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (v, 197 pages)
Uniform Title:
Noblesse au XVIIIe siècle
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Erscheint auch als
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.5/223/0944
Keywords:
Geschichte 1700-1800
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Geschichte 1700-1800
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Geschichte
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Nobility / France / History / 18th century
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Adel
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Frankreich
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Frankreich
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Frankreich
;
Adel
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Geschichte 1700-1800
Abstract:
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 society. Constantly renewing itself by recruiting the richest members of the middle classes or marrying their daughters, the nobility was in the forefront of French economic and intellectual life, and until 1789 was at the head of the movement for reform of the old regime state. In an afterword specially written for the English edition, the author explains how the revolutionaries came to turn against a group that had done more than any other to bring about the Revolution
Description / Table of Contents:
1. The Enlightenment and noble ideology -- 2. The nobility between myth and history -- 3. Plutocrats and paupers -- 4. The fundamental divide: culture -- 5. The nobility and capitalism -- 6. Rites and strategies: The marriage market -- 7. The nobility against the Old Regime -- 8. The plan for society
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511622236
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