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Contrary to their traditional image as a caste of intransigent reactionaries and parasites, this analysis maintains that pre-revolutionary nobility actually were in the forefront of French economic and intellectual life, and until 1789, at the head of the movement for reform of the old regime.Chaussinand-Nogaret, Guy is the author of 'French Nobility in the 18th Century', published 1985 under ISBN 9780521275903 and ISBN 0521275903.
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