The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800

58 Chapter III PROBLEMS OF ADMINISTRATION, RECRUITMENT, TAXATION, AND CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS Either segregation or assimilation had ...

Aristocracy: Theory and Practice 59 the assimilated rank of major- general. In Germany in the eighteenth century many middle- cl ...

60 Chapter III politics at an early age. This advantage, if it was one, was by no means limited to England. It was clearly due t ...

Aristocracy: Theory and Practice 61 tain moneys asked by Maria Theresa of the diet of Hungary, and which the diet refused, could ...

62 Chapter III goods, tangible and intangible, than a noble family—except rank. Mme. d’Epinay had a well- to- do acquaintance wh ...

Aristocracy: Theory and Practice 63 ters who were noblemen in disguise. A half- convinced audience, or half- convinced authors, ...

CHAPTER IV CLASHES WITH MONARCHY They are an assembly of republicans! Oh, well! Things as they are will last as long as I do! —L ...

Clashes with Monarchy 65 the Hapsburgs to continuing military expenditure, initiated the dissolution of Po- land, and helped to ...

66 Chapter IV This was generally true of all countries. In England it was only in the 1760’s that the substance of parliamentary ...

Clashes with Monarchy 67 at Versailles is a senator, the chambermaids have a part in government.... The court prevents every ref ...

68 Chapter IV “law” as the basis of authority, and they declared that certain fundamental laws, or a certain constitution by whi ...

Clashes with Monarchy 69 that no one suppose “that the king is king by force, for such are the signs of robbers and pirates.” Th ...

70 Chapter IV wave of anticlerical, antireligious, and general philosophe literature. It also, as often in the past, took action ...

Clashes with Monarchy 71 were strongly supported by the Parlement of Rennes. Both vigorously affirmed the historic autonomy of t ...

72 Chapter IV is, and like the political constitution of the State, of which it is the custodian and depository.... The Parlemen ...

Clashes with Monarchy 73 registration, publication and execution.... Public order in its entirety emanates from me, and the righ ...

74 Chapter IV qualifications, without regard to financial or family considerations. The overgrown area within which the Parlemen ...

Clashes with Monarchy 75 at best it had nothing better than enlightened despotism to offer—reform without consultation of anyone ...

76 Chapter IV Conditions in Sweden had come to have a strong resemblance to those in Poland. In both countries parties within th ...

Clashes with Monarchy 77 into military service, and that the development of Swedish society during the eighteenth century create ...