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The End of an Elite: The French Bishops and the Coming of the Revolution 1786-1790

by Nigel Aston
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780198202844
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Clarendon Press
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  • Pages: 352
  • Original Price: GBP 41.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 577 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / France

The End of an �lite is the first scholarly study in English of the bishops of the French church at the outbreak of the French Revolution. The 13 members of the episcopate formed an �lite within an �lite, the First Estate of France. Nigel Aston explores the role of the episcopate in national and provincial politics in the last years of the ancien r�gime. He traces the policies and patronage of episcopal ministers such as Lomi�nie de Brienne and J.-M. Champion de Cic�, who were as much politicians as pastors, and examines their relationships with their fellow bishops. Dr Aston emphasizes the leading role of the bishops in the Assemblies of Notables and offers a fresh interpretation of clerical elections to the Estates-General of 1789. This is an intensively researched and immensely readable account, which will be invaluable to all historians of late eighteenth-century France.

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