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The End of an �lite: The French Bishops and the Coming of the Revolution 1786-1790

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This is the first scholarly study in English of the bishops of the French church at the outbreak of the French Revolution. Nigel Aston explores the role of the episcopate in national and provincial politics in the last years of the ancien regime and the part played by the bishops in the early, critical stages of the Revolution. This is an intensively researched and immensely readable analysis of an elite with an elite, and its passing.

Language: English

Pages: 352

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Release: December 24, 1992

ISBN: 0198202849

ISBN 13: 9780198202844

The End of an �lite: The French Bishops and the Coming of the Revolution 1786-1790

3/5 ( ratings)

This is the first scholarly study in English of the bishops of the French church at the outbreak of the French Revolution. Nigel Aston explores the role of the episcopate in national and provincial politics in the last years of the ancien regime and the part played by the bishops in the early, critical stages of the Revolution. This is an intensively researched and immensely readable analysis of an elite with an elite, and its passing.

Language: English

Pages: 352

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Release: December 24, 1992

ISBN: 0198202849

ISBN 13: 9780198202844

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