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The End of an Elite - The French Bishops and the Coming of the Revolution 1786-1790 (Hardcover)
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The End of an Elite - The French Bishops and the Coming of the Revolution 1786-1790 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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The End of an Elite is the first scholarly study in English of the
bishops of the French church at the outbreak of the French
Revolution. The 130 members of the episcopate formed an elite
within an elite, the First Estate of France. Nigel Aston explores
the role of the episcopate in national and provincial politics in
the last years of the ancien regime. He traces the policies and
patronage of episcopal ministers such as Lomienie de Brienne and
J.-M. Champion de Cice, who were as much politicians as pastors,
and examines their relationships with their fellow bishops. Dr
Aston emphasizes the leading role of the bishops in the Assemblies
of Notables and offers a fresh interpretation of clerical elections
to the Estates-General of 1789. This is an intensively researched
and immensely readable account, which will be invaluable to all
historians of late eighteenth-century France.
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