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portada Aristocracy and its Enemies in the age of Revolution
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2009
Language
English
Pages
368
Format
Hardcover
Weight
1.50
ISBN
0199559856
ISBN13
9780199559855
Edition No.
1
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Aristocracy and its Enemies in the age of Revolution

William Doyle (Author) · Oxford University Press · Hardcover

Aristocracy and its Enemies in the age of Revolution - William Doyle

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Synopsis "Aristocracy and its Enemies in the age of Revolution "

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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