Originally published in 1987. David Higgs's Nobles in
Nineteenth-Century France: The Practice of Inegalitarianism
provides a history of the nobility against the backdrop of changing
French political conditions following the French Revolution. Since
Jean Juares, the influential historian of the French Revolution,
many writers have argued that the French Revolution marked the
political triumph of a capitalist bourgeoisie over a landed
aristocracy. However, beginning with Alfred Cobban, some historians
began to question this account by focusing on the continued
presence of the nobility in France. This book contributes to this
body of work by giving a panorama of the French nobility and three
detailed case studies of noble families; the author then concludes
with an examination of the nobility in political life, the church,
and the private sphere. Professor Higgs finds that French nobles
changed with their century, but given their small numbers in the
national population, they maintained a grossly disproportionate
presence in politics, in culture, among the wealthiest landowners,
and in economic life.
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