5. Noble Tax Exemption and the Long-Term Origins of the French Revolution: The Example of Provence, 1530s to 1789

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Nobility After Revisionism 1
5. I. Nobility and Economy
6. 1. Economies of Consumption: Political Economy and Noble Display in Eighteenth-Century France 19
7. 2. A Divided Nobility: Status, Markets, and the Patrimonial State in the Old Regime 43
8. 3. The Noble Profession of Seigneur in Eighteenth-Century Burgundy 77
9. 4. Political Economy and the French Nobility, 1750 –1789 111
10. II. Nobility and Political Culture
11. 5. Noble Tax Exemption and the Long-Term Origins of the French Revolution: The Example of Provence, 1530s to 1789 141
12. 6. Women, Gender, and the Image of the Eighteenth-Century Aristocracy 167
13. 7. Nobles into Aristocrats, or How an Order Became a Conspiracy 189
14. III. Nobility and "Aristocratic Reaction"
15. 8. A Rhetoric of Aristocratic Reaction? Nobility in De l’Esprit des Lois 227
16. 9. The Making of an Aristocratic Reactionary: The Comte d’Escherny, Noble Honor, and the Abolition of Nobility 253
17. 10. The Memoirs of Lameth and the Reconciliation of Nobility and Revolution 279
18. IV. Nobility and Modernity
19. 11. French Nobles and the Historians, 1820 –1960 305
20. For Further Reading 333
21. List of Contributors 335
22. Index 339