Europe
Subtitle: Privilege and Protest, 1730-1789 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: January 1, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780631215134
First sentence: On the eve of the meeting of the Estates General in 1789 a contemporary print showed a humble peasant whose bent back bore, lashed to him like the proverbial albatross, a fat ecclesiastic, representing the church, and a gaudily dressed noble representing the aristocracy.