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The end of an élite : the French bishops and the coming of the revolution, 1786-1790 /

This is the first scholarly study in English of the bishops of the French Church at the outbreak of the French Revolution. The 130 members of the episcopate formed an elite within an elite, the First Estate of the kingdom. Much has been written in recent years about the late eighteenth-century Frenc...

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Main Author: Aston, Nigel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1992.
Series:Oxford historical monographs.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > France > Bishops > History > 18th century.
Église catholique > France > Évêques > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Catholic Church.
France > Church history > 18th century.
France > History > Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799.
France > Histoire religieuse > 18e siècle.
France > Histoire > 1774-1793 (Louis XVI)
Bishops.
France.
Französische Revolution
Ursache
Frankreich
Bischof
Bisschoppen.
Elites.
Rooms-Katholieke Kerk.
Franse Revolutie.
1700-1799
Geschichte 1786-1790.
Geschichte 1789-1790.
Catholicism > Bishops > History
France
Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
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Call Number: BX1530 .A68 1992
 
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