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Frontmatter -- Table des matières -- Introduction -- PREMIÈRE PARTIE. L'Ancien Régime: vers une fusion des élites? -- Introduction -- 1. La noblesse: justification, contestation, variété -- 2. Riches et pauvres: les clivages fondamentaux à l'intérieur de la noblesse -- 3. La fortune nobiliaire: assises foncières et capitalisme -- 4. noblesse et bourgeoisie: le problème de la nomination aux emplois -- 5. Vers une élite de «notables» -- DEUXIEME PARTIE. La France post-révolutionnaire: la société des notables -- Introduction -- 6. L'Empire: élites anciennes et nouvelles -- 7. La Restauration: triomphe de l'aristocratie foncière -- 8. La Monarchie de Juillet: le gouvernement des élites?
One of France's liveliest historians, Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret argues 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 new research, he argues that the nobility represented all that was most forward-looking in eighteenth-century French society.
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