From Valor to Pedigree: Ideas of Nobility in France in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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This study offers a new interpretation of how nobility was viewed in sixteenth-century France and the changes that occurred in that view as France moved into the period of religious wars and popular rebellions and the appearance of the absolutist state.
Originally published in 1986.
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