Pictures of the French: a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character (1840)
Janin, Jules Gabriel, 1804-1874 · London, W. S. Orr and co. · leaf 552
THE PEER OF FRANCE. BY MARIE AYCARD. … T may be necessary to observe, before we speak of thePeer of France, that the Peerage has gained by theRevolution. Before 1789, the nobility, as a body, hadno political rights; they formed no part of theGovernment, their privileges were limited to theuseless prerogative of sitting in parliament,…
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