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Noblesse Au XVIIIe Siècle. Anglais

By: Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret

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Noblesse Au XVIIIe Siècle. Anglais

By: Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret

Contrary to their traditional image as a caste of intransigent reactionaries and parasites, this analysis maintains that pre-revolutionary nobility actually were in the forefront of French economic and intellectual life, and until 1789, at the head of the movement for reform of the old regime.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521275903

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9780521275903

The Financial Decline of a Great Power

War, Influence, and Money in Louis XIV's France

By: Guy Rowlands

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The Financial Decline of a Great Power

War, Influence, and Money in Louis XIV's France

By: Guy Rowlands

An examination of the financial decline of Louis XIV's France during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714).

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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0199585075

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9780199585076

The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV

Royal Service and Private Interest 1661–1701

By: Guy Rowlands

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The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV

Royal Service and Private Interest 1661–1701

By: Guy Rowlands

The 'personal rule' of Louis XIV witnessed a massive increase in the size of the French army and an apparent improvement in the quality of its officers, its men and the War Ministry. However, this is the first book to treat the French army under Louis XIV as a living political, social and economic organism, an institution which reflected the dynastic interests and personal concerns of the king and his privileged subjects. The book explains the development of the army between the end of Cardinal Mazarin's ministry and the outbreak of the War of the Spanish Succession, emphasising the awareness of Louis XIV and his ministers of the need to pay careful attention to the condition of the king's officers, and to take account of their military, political, social and cultural aspirations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139439308

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9781139439305

The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century

From Feudalism to Enlightenment

By: Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret

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The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century

From Feudalism to Enlightenment

By: Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret

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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0521256232

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Book's by Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret

Noblesse Au XVIIIe Siècle. Anglais

Noblesse Au XVIIIe Siècle. Anglais

The Financial Decline of a Great Power

The Financial Decline of a Great Power

The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV

The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV

The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century

The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century

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