First published in 2006. Feudalism is normally associated with eighteenth-century France only in its more bizarre survivals, as in The Marriage of Figaro, when
One of the most lively of France's younger historians, Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret argues in this pioneering essay that the traditional picture of the pre-revolutio
This book, the final installment of a two-volume history of French lordship, examines the role of lordship in old regime society, the internal structures and ad