Paris aristocracy

[alastair]

Anyone know any good books about the Paris aristocracy and it's social season, ettiquette etc. All the books I seem to find are in French and havn't been translated X

[mayneverhave]

Anyone know any good books about the Paris aristocracy and it's social season, ettiquette etc. All the books I seem to find are in French and havn't been translated X

Are you looking for non-fiction or novels dealing with French social etiquette?

For novels, Balzac, Flaubert, Proust are good choices.

[Jozanny]

I enjoyed the Princess of Cleves, an early novel form; it seems nearly a post-modern satire, in today's terms.

[mal4mac]

Flaubert "Sentimental Education"

[alastair]

Non fiction

[OrphanPip]

My library has like 3 copies of Franklin's Robe & Sword: The Regrouping of the French Aristocracy after Louis XIV, which seems to be the only book in English on the subject at my library. Haven't read it though.