Historians have long been fascinated by the nobility in
pre-Revolutionary France. What difference did nobles make in French
society? What role did they play in the coming of the Revolution?
In this book, a group of prominent French historians shows why the
nobility remains a vital topic for understanding France's past.
The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century appears some
thirty years after the publication of the most sweeping and
influential "revisionist" assessment of the French nobility, Guy
Chaussinand-Nogaret's La noblesse au dix-huitieme siecle. The
contributors to this volume incorporate the important lessons of
Chaussinand-Nogaret's revisionism but also reexamine the
assumptions on which that revisionism was based. At the same time,
they consider what has been gained or lost through the adoption of
new methods of inquiry in the intervening years. Where, in other
words, should the nobility fit into the twenty-first century's
narrative about eighteenth-century France?
The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century will interest not
only specialists of the eighteenth century, the French Revolution,
and modern European history but also those concerned with the
differences in, and the developing tensions between, the methods of
social and cultural history.
In addition to the editor, the contributors are Rafe Blaufarb,
Gail Bossenga, Mita Choudhury, Jonathan Dewald, Doina Pasca
Harsanyi, Thomas E. Kaiser, Michael Kwass, Robert M. Schwartz, John
Shovlin, and Johnson Kent Wright.
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