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| List of Illustrations | ix | ||
| Acknowledgments | xi | ||
| List of abbreviations | xv | ||
| Introduction: Honor, Virtue, and Patriotism in Eighteenth-Century France | 1 | (25) | |
| 1. Nobility and the Appeal to Virute in Early Eighteenth-Century France (1700's-1740's) | 26 | (41) | |
| 2. Nobility and the Longing for Virute: Patriotic Possibilities from Montesquieu to Mirabeau | 67 | (37) | |
| 3. Patriotism and Social Taxonomy in the Debate over La Noblesse Commerçante | 104 | (39) | |
| 4. Patriotic Resurgence and the Nationalization of Honor (1760's-1780) | 143 | (39) | |
| 5. Nobility in a Nation of Citizens (1760's-early 1780's) | 182 | (40) | |
| 6. Defining Nobility and Nation in 1788-1789 | 222 | (43) | |
| Conclusion: Patriotic Revolution | 265 | (16) | |
| Bibliography | 281 | (20) | |
| Index | 301 |
