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[edit] Merger of Noble of the Robe/Sword and French Nobility is worth consideration

Merging all of these articles is worth consideration. However, Noble of the Robe and Noble of the Sword are commonly used terms and would still need small pages briefly explaining the terms and referring them to the major article. As the French Nobility article currently stands it needs a lot of work before it could stand alone. Wikipediatoperfection 06:38, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

(Opposite) There are fr:Noblesse de robe and de:Noblesse de robe. So the merging will confuse the interlanguage links. You should use template:main.Penpen0216 00:25, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Role in the Enlghtenment

French nobles played a huge role in the Enlightenment. I am adding a section on this. Wikipediatoperfection 06:40, 17 March 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Question and Suggestion:

Noblesse d'épée (nobility of the sword) or noblesse de race or noblesse ancienne - The traditional or old nobility.

I think that perhaps this should be linked to a page better explaining what this means. I am just taking a big assumption here on this... but

'The traditional or old nobility' -- I take that to mean 'hereditary' nobility? Those who are sons or grandsons or otherwise related to the King? Is that correct?

[edit] Today

Shouldn't this article say something about French nobility today? Are the decendents of nobles allowed to use titles? I know that in Germany, non-primogenitural titles became last names. Did something similiar happen in France? Emperor001 (talk) 15:10, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

The article does address those issues in the section "Nobility since the Revolution". - NYArtsnWords (talk) 03:20, 6 March 2008 (UTC)