Perhaps nothing was more decadent about aristocrats before the French Revolution than their over-the-top meals; the things French aristocrats ate even make modern Americans looks like humble cuisine ...

Before the Revolution, ... But that wasn’t actually the end of aristocracy in France—far from it. There are, in fact, several different batches of French nobility.

But the French nobility - la noblesse - is still very much alive. In fact, in sheer numbers there may be more nobles today than there were before the Revolution. "We reckon there are 4,000 ...

According to some estimates, there may actually be more people who can claim to be part of the French aristocracy today than before the French Revolution. We take a closer look. By: ...

The French Revolution, sparked by rampant inequality, widespread joblessness, and a disdain for the ruling aristocracy, finds its modern counterpart in Kenya’s youthful uprising. In the 18th ...

By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, ... and religion, as well as a representative government and equality before the law. Some ... A revolution of this sort, ...

In the late 1700s, the King of France, Louis XVI, ruled with absolute power over his people. This was a country in which the rich powerful aristocracy and the church enjoyed endless privileges ...

True, at the Revolution there were 12,000 families. But today families are much broader. So overall we reckon there are between 50- and 100,000 nobles in France today - roughly the same as in the ...