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Aristocracy and its Enemies in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover, New)
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Aristocracy and its Enemies in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover, New)
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Since time immemorial Europe had been dominated by nobles and
nobilities. In the eighteenth century their power seemed better
entrenched than ever. But in 1790 the French revolutionaries made a
determined attempt to abolish nobility entirely. "Aristocracy"
became the term for everything they were against, and the nobility
of France, so recently the most dazzling and sophisticated elite in
the European world, found itself persecuted in ways that horrified
counterparts in other countries.
Aristocracy and its Enemies traces the roots of the attack on
nobility at this time, looking at intellectual developments over
the preceding centuries, in particular the impact of the American
Revolution. It traces the steps by which French nobles were
disempowered and persecuted, a period during which large numbers
fled the country and many perished or were imprisoned.
In the end abolition of the aristocracy proved impossible, and
nobles recovered much of their property. Napoleon set out to
reconcile the remnants of the old nobility to the consequences of
revolution, and created a titled elite of his own. After his fall
the restored Bourbons offered renewed recognition to all forms of
nobility. But nineteenth century French nobles were a group
transformed and traumatized by the revolutionary experience, and
they never recovered their old hegemony and privileges. As William
Doyle shows, if the revolutionaries failed in their attempt to
abolish nobility, they nevertheless began the longer term process
of aristocratic decline that has marked the last two centuries.
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