The end of an élite : the French bishops and the coming of the revolution, 1786-1790 / Nigel Aston.

This is the first scholarly study in English of the bishops of the French Church at the outbreak of the French Revolution. The 130 members of the episcopate formed an elite within an elite, the First Estate of the kingdom. Much has been written in recent years about the late eighteenth-century Frenc...

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Main Author: Aston, Nigel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1992.
Series:Oxford historical monographs.
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