Book 1981
Their Gracious Pleasure 1782-1785
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- Publisher
- Knopf
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981
- Biography
- History
- Causes
- France, biography
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