The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century : : Reassessments and New Approaches /

The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century : : Reassessments and New Approaches / / ed. by Jay M. Smith.

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Historians have long been fascinated by the nobility in pre-Revolutionary France. What difference did nobles make in French society? What role did they play in the coming of the Revolution? In this book, a group of prominent French historians shows why the nobility remains a vital topic for understa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Bossenga, Gail,
Choudhury, Mita,
Dewald, Jonathan,
Harsanyi, Doina Pasca,
Kaiser, Thomas E.,
Kent Wright, Johnson,
Kwass, Michael,
Schwartz, Robert M.,
Shovlin, John,
Smith, Jay M.,
HerausgeberIn:
Smith, Jay M.,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2006
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Nobility After Revisionism
  • I. Nobility and Economy
  • 1. Economies of Consumption: Political Economy and Noble Display in Eighteenth-Century France
  • 2. A Divided Nobility: Status, Markets, and the Patrimonial State in the Old Regime
  • 3. The Noble Profession of Seigneur in Eighteenth-Century Burgundy
  • 4. Political Economy and the French Nobility, 1750 -1789
  • II. Nobility and Political Culture
  • 5. Noble Tax Exemption and the Long-Term Origins of the French Revolution: The Example of Provence, 1530s to 1789
  • 6. Women, Gender, and the Image of the Eighteenth-Century Aristocracy
  • 7. Nobles into Aristocrats, or How an Order Became a Conspiracy
  • III. Nobility and "Aristocratic Reaction"
  • 8. A Rhetoric of Aristocratic Reaction? Nobility in De l'Esprit des Lois
  • 9. The Making of an Aristocratic Reactionary: The Comte d'Escherny, Noble Honor, and the Abolition of Nobility
  • 10. The Memoirs of Lameth and the Reconciliation of Nobility and Revolution
  • IV. Nobility and Modernity
  • 11. French Nobles and the Historians, 1820 -1960
  • For Further Reading
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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