Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: the gilded ghetto of royal nobility
- 1 The Enlightenment and noble ideology
- 2 The nobility between myth and history
- 3 Plutocrats and paupers
- 4 The fundamental divide: culture
- 5 The nobility and capitalism
- 6 Rites and strategies: the marriage market
- 7 The nobility against the Old Regime
- 8 A plan for society
- Conclusion
- Afterword to the English edition
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Supplementary bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: the gilded ghetto of royal nobility
- 1 The Enlightenment and noble ideology
- 2 The nobility between myth and history
- 3 Plutocrats and paupers
- 4 The fundamental divide: culture
- 5 The nobility and capitalism
- 6 Rites and strategies: the marriage market
- 7 The nobility against the Old Regime
- 8 A plan for society
- Conclusion
- Afterword to the English edition
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Supplementary bibliography
- Index
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- The French Nobility in the Eighteenth CenturyFrom Feudalism to Enlightenment, pp. 195 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1985