Becoming a French Aristocrat : : The Education of the Court Nobility, 1580-1715 / / Mark Edward Motley.

Focusing on the highest-ranking segment of the nobility, Mark Motley examines why a social group whose very essence was based on hereditary status would need or seek instruction and training for its young. As the "warrior nobility" adopted the courtly life epitomized by Versailles--with it...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1990
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1102
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Principal Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: Family and Household Education
  • Chapter Two: Language and Letters
  • Chapter Three: The Academy
  • Chapter Four: Entering the World
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index