Title: Their gracious pleasure
First published: 1980
Description: An account of French aristocratic society on the eve of the French Revolution describes the aristocracy's decadence and corruption, their willful extravagance, and their obdurate blindness to the impending debacle
Subjects: Biography, History, Causes, France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793 -- Biography., France, biography, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799
Places: France
Time periods: Revolution, 1789-1799, Louis XVI, 1774-1793