Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture: France, 1570-1715

Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture

France, 1570-1715

Jonathan Dewald

Suggested citation:
Dewald, Jonathan. Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture: France, 1570-1715. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4m3nb2k3/

Preface

Introduction
1 Ambition and the Polity
2 The Profession of Arms
3 Family, Education, and Selfhood
4 Friendship, Love, and Civility
5 Money and the Problem of Power
6 The Meanings of Writing
Conclusion

Appendix: Biographical Sketches
Bibliography

Contents