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Ellery Schalk. From Valor to Pedigree: Ideas of Nobility in France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. xvii + 242 pp. $35.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. Russell Major
J. Russell Major*
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Emory University
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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , Spring 1987 , pp. 123 - 125
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1987

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References

1 Ordre social. Mythes et hierarchies dans la France du XVIe Siècle (Paris, 1977).

2 Le sang épuré. Les préjugés de race chez les gentilshommes français de l'ancien régime, 1560-1720 (Brussels, 1973).

3 Mourier, Jacques, “Nobilitas, quid est? Un procès à Tain-L'Hermitage en 1408,” Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, 142 (1984), 255-69.CrossRefGoogle Scholar