The European Nobility in the Eighteenth Century (European Culture and Society)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 6, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780333652107
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Social classes; c 1700 to c 1800; History: World; Europe - General; History - General History; Textbooks; Europe; Modern - 18th Century; History / Modern / 18th Century; 18th century; Economic conditions; History; Nobility; Power (Social sciences)
First sentence: In 1765, an ennobled French lawyer was struggling to produce a comprehensive description of the terms noble and noblesse for that strange compedium of the informative and the subversive, Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopedie.