TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nogaret, Guy Chaussinand
AU  - William Doyle.
TI  - The french nobility in the eighteenth century: from feudalism to enlightenment 
SN  - 9780521275903
U1  - 305.5 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Social classes France History 18th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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

N2  - 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
ER  -