One of the most lively of France's younger historians, Guy
Chaussinand-Nogaret argues in this pioneering essay 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 a whole range of new research
and calculations, he argues that the nobility represented all that
was most vigorous and forward-looking in eighteenth-century French
society. Constantly renewing itself by recruiting the richest
members of the middle classes or marrying their daughters, the
nobility was in the forefront of French economic and intellectual
life, and until 1789 was at the head of the movement for reform of
the old regime state. In an afterword specially written for the
English edition, the author explains how the revolutionaries came
to turn against a group that had done more than any other to bring
about the Revolution.
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