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Four Nobilities of the Old Regime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Robert Forster
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College
R. Burr Litchfield
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College

Abstract

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Type
Aristocracies
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1965

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References

1 Despite the efforts of Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre in the pages of the Annales in 1936, it has only been since the war that the study of the nobility as a social group has come into its own in France. C. E. Labrousse launched a European-wide appeal for studies of social structure during the Old Regime at the International Congress of Historical Sciences at Rome in 1955.

2 The series of essays on European nobilities written under the editorship of A. Goodwin invites comparisons. Goodwin, A. ed., The European Nobility in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1953).Google Scholar

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