Privileged social class in France during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period to the revolution in 1790.
1Thou thinkest Marie-Antoinette commanded the nobility of France with her good diction?
2Yet we are at least as innocent as the nobility of France.
3To the whole nobility of France he was a fatal and unreasonable phenomenon.
4The artist's family was of the small nobility of France.
5The nobility of France was essentially a military class.
6I will say to the dukes and counts and princes of the ancient nobility of France:
7I shall treat him, and all Southern gentlemen, as our fathers treated the emigrant nobility of France.
8And indeed, high and noble lords, you must know that the nobility of France is famous throughout the world.
9The Louvre was brilliantly illuminated; the gardens and the various apartments were crowded with the beauty and nobility of France.
10The nobility of France were descended from Germanic warriors established in the country after the so-called invasion of the barbarians.
11The gentry and nobility of France wanted recognition of social distinctions, and they wanted it reinforced by style, nostalgia and romance.
12Half the nobility of France were still in Paris enjoying the festivities which were being held to mark the royal marriage.
13For the extremes of riches and of poverty are, as I have been informed, very frequent among the nobility of France.
14What virtues, for instance, the Revolution brought to light as even yet in the nature of the corrupted nobility of France!
15Both the clergy and the nobility of France had become accustomed to the absorption in the crown of their ancient feudal power.
16This king to whom the nobility of France belonged was Death; this queen to which proud heads bowed low was the Guillotine!
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