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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- 1 Constructing Status: Family Narratives, Family Myths -- 2 Constructing Identity: Henri de Rohan, 1579–1638 -- 3 Women, Gender, and the Management of Dynastic Capital -- 4 Material Contexts: Wealth, Income, Strategies -- 5 Followers and Servants: Aristocracy as Collective Practice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Introduction: Historians and Modernity -- "A la Table de Magny": Men of Letters and Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century Paris -- Ordering Time: The Problem of French Chronology -- God and the Historian: Sainte-Beuve's Port-Royal -- Lost Worlds: Lucien Febvre and the Alien Past -- Private Lives and Historical Knowledge -- Nobles as Signifiers: Making Sense of a Class Structure -- An Alternative Path to Rural History -- Conclusion: On the Politics of Social History

In this study of one group of the new nobility, Jonathan Dewald argues that the origin, attitudes, and behavior of the noblesse de robe were in fundamental ways similar to those of the old nobility. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.