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	French nobility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nobles also maintained certain judicial rights over their vassals, although with the rise of the modern state many of these privileges had passed to state control, leaving rural nobilty only local police functions and judicial control over violation of their seigneurial rights.
		By relocating the French royal court to Versailles in the 1680s, Louis XIV of France further modified the role of the nobles.
		Despite the abolition of nobility at the French Revolution and the loss of their privileged juridical status ("all men are equal citizens"), the nobility continued to exist throughout the nineteenth century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_nobility (3406 words)

	Nobility and Titles in France
		The legal class of nobility, as one of the fundamental remaining elements of feudalism, was abolished along with the feudal regime on August 4, 1789, which established legal equiality of all individuals regardless of birth.
		French courts have held that the concept of nobility is incompatible with the equality of all citizens before the law proclaimed in the Declaration of the Rights of Man of 1789, which is legally part of the Constitution of 1958.
		Titles of nobility essentially arise from the exercise of the sovereign's prerogative; and, in that respect, the executive branch (as represented by the ministry of Justice) is the heir of sovereigns past.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/france/noblesse.htm (8886 words)

	SOME RANDOM THOUGHTS ABOUT FRENCH NOBILITY
		Some of these ennoblements granted nobility in the first degree, that is to say that it became immediately hereditary; in the case of others such as Treasurers of Finance not exercising in Paris, the nobility was in the second degree, that is the nobility only became hereditary after the second generation in the function.
		It was know as the "nobility of the bell" because these magistrates were summoned to their meetings by ringing the bell in the town square.
		While submerging the old imperial nobility he at the same time profited nicely.(During the imperial period the fees paid to the treasury were quite moderate: 900 francs for a duke, 600 francs for a count and 300 for a baron).
	www.maineworldnewsservice.com /caltrap/some.htm (3812 words)

	The French
		Among the nobility, the count was responsible for revenue and finances while a separate title, the duke, took responsibility for the maintenance of a military.
		From a political point of view, the nobility control the state in their roles of maintaining an independent military and exercising a certain amount of autonomous control over the finances and revenues from the lands under their control.
		The French monarchy suddenly grew in prestige and importance as the barons began to regard Louis as the counter-balance to Henry II.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/MA/FRENCH.HTM (6065 words)

	Jay M. Smith, ed.: The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: Reassessments and New Approaches
		The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century appears some thirty years after the publication of the most sweeping and influential “revisionist” assessment of the French nobility, Guy Chaussinand-Nogaret’s La noblesse au dix-huitième siècle.
		The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century will interest not only specialists of the eighteenth century, the French Revolution, and modern European history but also those concerned with the differences in, and the developing tensions between, the methods of social and cultural history.
		11 Nobles as Signifiers: French Nobles and the Historians, 1820–1960, by Jonathan Dewald
	www.psupress.org /books/titles/0-271-02898-X.html (437 words)

	Scots Members of the French Nobility
		One peculiar aspect of the "auld alliance" between France and Scotland (founded on the common enmity with England) was the existence of French titles held by Scots nobles.
		The duke argued that the clause of the treaty of 1814 created an exception to that law in his favor, and that the courts were incompetent to interpret or alter an international treaty.
		The marquess of Abercorn, heir to the male line, appealed the decree before the French Conseil d'État, initially asking it to recognize his right to the title and annul the decree, and later admitting that the Conseil d'État could not adjudicate the dispute, but could suspend the decree until civil courts had decided the matter.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/france/scotfr.htm (6246 words)

	French Nobility
		These are still linked to the lands that were erected to give their owner noble rank, but their validity has been subject to much argument.
		The range of opinion to be found on the Internet is wide ~ some writers holding that all French feudal titles were abolished during the 1789 Revolution, while others fraudulently offer to sell to anyone with a few dollars French titles that are unquestionably bogus.
		A fair number of the “Lord of the Manor” titles that come onto the market are genuine, but they are not titles of nobility and their owner may not be styled Lord or Lady (as the scam merchants claim).
	www.baronage.co.uk /2001/french-1.html (282 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Poster Search: French
		Civil Costumes of the French Nobility, 1364-1461 #1
		Civil Costumes of the French Nobility, 1364-1461 #2
		Feminine Dress of the French and Italian Aristocracy, Sixteenth Century
	posters.barnesandnoble.com /search/Results.asp?sourceid=426197&WRD=French (34 words)

	Hamilton of French Nobility
		The spreading success of the English Reformation and the quality of Scottish soldiers were among the reasons France continued to promote the alliance, while the Jacobites of the eighteenth century relied heavily on French support.
		Finally, a "brevet" of 4 Oct 1616 from Louis XIII of France granted an annual sum of 12,000 livres to them as compensation for the duchy.
		The title was supposedly confirmed in 1885 by the French government, and the current holder is Donald Franklin Stewart, of Baltimore, MD. Perhaps the descent is from Alexander ( before 1508), 3d son of John Stuart of Darnley, 1st earl of Lennox.
	www.guice.org /hamchat2.html (2368 words)

	The Nobility of the French Revolution: HistoryWiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		With the exception of a few liberals, the nobility wanted greater political influence for themselves but nothing for the third estate.
		However, the nobility saw themselves as special, with better blood, and entitled to all of their class privileges.
		The Parlement, a judicial organization controlled by the nobility, invoked its powers to block the King's move.
	www.historywiz.com /nobility.htm (134 words)

	Bibliographic Guides for French Nobility Genealogical Reseach (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		As a result of working on the Baillon and Le Neuf research projects I have come to appreciate several valuable tools for tracing French and other European noble and royal families.
		In addition, one of the most important tools for tracing French nobles is Schwennicke's Europäische Stammtafeln (1980-1995).
		This is a collection of family trees for European noble and royal families.
	www.habitant.org /tools (122 words)

	chez mistral / Ansouis: Rambling about French Nobility, Restaurant La Closerie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In 1969 their daughter Gersende married Jacques Duc d’Orléans, the brother of Henri d’Orléans, Comte de Paris and Duc de France, the current head of the house of Orléans, who claims to be the rightful heir to the French crown.
		Todays nobility in France are the Énarques, graduates of ENA (Ecole Nationale d’Administration), the elite school in Strasbourg.
		ENA was banned from Paris by the last prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin (himself not an Énarque), I guess in order to give its graduates more exposure to the common man. We all miss Raffarin and his “Raffarinades”, the sporadic and cryptic speeches from the “Phoenix du Haut Poitou”.
	chezmistral.vrbx.com /?p=51 (758 words)

	French Nobility and Titles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Since Madame Guillotine tended to be rather sharp with the French nobilty following the French Revolution, titles became much disused.
		After civility returned to the country, titles were however once again legalized by the new government and courts to the degree of upholding the titles that were already in place.
		I will add more here later, but for now a good source of information on French titles and nobility may be found at the Nobility in France site.
	www.naught.org /noble.html (120 words)

	The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: From Feudalism to Enlightenment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century: From Feudalism to Enlightenment
		Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (Studies on the History of Society and Culture, 1), Price:
		Inventing the French Revolution: Essays on French Political Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Ideas in Context), Price:
	www.broadwaymidi.com /broadway/asinsearch_0521275903/index.html (165 words)

	The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century - Cambridge University Press
		The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century - Cambridge University Press
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		Title: The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century
	dx.doi.org /10.2277/0521275903 (52 words)

	Candide A woman dressed as eighteenth-century French nobility
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