Nogaret, Guy Chaussinand <br/><br/>
The french nobility in the eighteenth century :  from feudalism to enlightenment / 
Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret ; translated by William Doyle. 
 - New York :  Cambridge University Press,  1995. 
 - 197 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>1. The Enlightenment and noble ideology<br/>2. The nobility between myth and history<br/>3. Plutocrats and paupers<br/>4. The fundamental divide: culture<br/>5. The nobility and capitalism<br/>6. Rites and strategies: The marriage market<br/>7. The nobility against the Old Regime<br/>8. The plan for society.<br/> 
<br/><br/> Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret argues 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 new research, he argues that the nobility represented all that was most forward-looking in eighteenth-century French society. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521275903 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social classes France History 18th century.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.5  / NOG