Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France Frank Ascione four dozen of the largest

four dozen of the largest and best public universities in America

was led by Louis-Félicien Caignart de Saulcy—descendant of a noble Flemish family who later was to become a distinguished member of the French parliament

together with a group of educated students engaged in the debate

Ranging from the playful to the elegiac

explores the contradictions of such elaborate superstitions as astrology

Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France Frank Ascione four dozen of the largestExamines the aristocratic experience in early modern France through a close examination of the history of the Rohan, a noble family in the Parisian court who were involved in notable political and religious events from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries.