The end of an élite : the French bishops and the coming of the Revolution, 1786-1790
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The end of an élite : the French bishops and the coming of the Revolution, 1786-1790
（Oxford historical monographs）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1992
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University
Includes bibliography (p. [283]-325) and index
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Description
The End of an Elite is the first scholarly study in English of the bishops of the French church at the outbreak of the French Revolution. The 130 members of the episcopate formed an elite within an elite, the First Estate of France.
Nigel Aston explores the role of the episcopate in national and provincial politics in the last years of the ancien regime. He traces the policies and patronage of episcopal ministers such as Lomienie de Brienne and J.-M. Champion de Cice, who were as much politicians as pastors, and examines their relationships with their fellow bishops. Dr Aston emphasizes the leading role of the bishops in the Assemblies of Notables and offers a fresh interpretation of clerical
elections to the Estates-General of 1789.
This is an intensively researched and immensely readable account, which will be invaluable to all historians of late eighteenth-century France.
Table of Contents
- An apostolic elite - the bishops of the French Church at the end of the Ancien Regime
- the bishops, political reform and public administration
- bishops and the Assembly of Notables, spring 1787
- a clerical minister - Brienne, the bishops versus cures - clerical elections to the Estates-General, spring 1789
- the end of the First Estate - the bishops and the Estates-General, May-July 1789
- the failure of patriotism - the bishops in the National Assmebly, July-September 1789
- the bishops outside the Assembly and the new political order, 1789-90
- the constitutionalists on the defensive, winter 1789-1790.
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