Status and merchant political culture: the Toulouse Bourse in the eighteenth century
Revisionism has noted, but not always elaborated upon, the importance of status as a motive for action and an organizing principle for social life. This article, combining institutional history and discourse analysis, offers a fresh account of the importance of status in late eighteenth-century French political culture. It unveils the status sensitivity of the merchant [...]
Why is it said that France was a rich nation with an impoverished government during the French Revolution?
i have an AP EURO question i need help with ……… im trying to figure out Why is it said that France was a rich nation with an impoverished government during the French Revolution? and possibly how the financial weakness of the monarchy laid the foundations of the revolution of 1789…… Thanks for any help