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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
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2 editions- Hardcover · English · 1980Knopf · 451 pages · 9780394501550
- Other · English · 1989Their gracious pleasure, 1782-1785Simon and Schuster · 451 pages · 9780671680206
BiographyHistoryCausesFrance, biographyFrance, history, revolution, 1789-1799