Europe - Church History, 1589 - 1789 (Bourbon Dynasty) - French History, Roman Catholic Church History, 1789 - 1815 (Revolution, First Republic & First Empire) - French History, 18th Century French History - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
This is the first scholarly study in English of the bishops of the French church at the outbreak of the French Revolution. Nigel Aston explores the role of the episcopate in national and provincial politics in the last years of the ancien regime and the part played by the bishops in the early, critical stages of the Revolution. This is an intensively researched and immensely readable analysis of an elite with an elite, and its passing.
Book Details
Published
December 28, 1992
Publisher
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; 1992.
Pages
352
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780198202844