TY  - BOOK
AU  - Motley,Mark Edward
TI  - Becoming a French Aristocrat: The Education of the Court Nobility, 1580-1715 
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9780691602905
AV  - LC4945.F7 -- M68 1990eb 
U1  - 371.9 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / France
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Principal Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Chapter One: Family and Household Education --; Chapter Two: Language and Letters --; Chapter Three: The Academy --; Chapter Four: Entering the World --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Focusing on the highest-ranking segment of the nobility, Mark Motley examines why a social group whose very essence was based on hereditary status would need or seek instruction and training for its young. As the "warrior nobility" adopted the courtly life epitomized by Versailles--with its code of etiquette and sensitivity to language and demeanor--education became more than a vehicle for professional training. Education, Motley argues, played both the conservative role of promoting assertions of "natural" superiority appropriate to a hereditary aristocracy, and the more dynamic role of fostering cultural changes that helped it maintain its power in a changing world.Based on such sources as family papers and correspondence, memoirs, and pedagogical treatises, this book explores education as it took place in the household, in secondary schools and riding academies, and at court and in the army. It shows how such education combined deference and solidarity, language and knowledge, and ceremonial behavior and festive disorder. In so doing, this work contends that education was an integral part of the aristocracy's response to absolutism in the French monarchy.Originally published in 1990.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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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
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