The French Revolution and the Nobility: A Reconsideration - JSTOR

Revolution, tells a different story, since the general impression is that the noblesse de robe was sizeable in 1789. This presumable decline could have been caused by the Revolution or possibly by economic transformations. My work on the full electorate shows the Professions electors were concentrated in the countryside ................
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