American Politics In The 18th Century

Creation of national states in the early modern period served the interests of the nobility as much it did the kings, and this was particular in the two countries, such as France and England. This time period was the age of nobles, the nobility, the kings of these two states often had a kind of relationship that could be seen as social welfare for the rich and that the nobles got stuff such as jobs and money from the kings, what the kings got from them was support. However, the relationship they had with each been at sometimes was strained between them.
One of the states that were created in the early modern period that served the interest of the nobles was, France. France had a relationship with the nobles didn’t start out very well between
What kind of benefits they got from the king was many things. One of the first benefits the nobles got from the king was, they got jobs from the state, and money from the king. What the nobles also had a chance to get from the king was favors, and only could get them if they came to court. The kind of favors they got from the king could be; one example of this is was being first in line to dance in the wedding of Marie Antoinette to the Dauphin in 1765, which, actually happened was that he gave an daughter of an noble family, the right to dance first before most of the royal family danced during the wedding, of course, this caused an scandal in court, and most of the nobles were not pleased by this at all. They did show up to the event, but most of them showed their displeasure of this known, and decided to not dance during it. The same mother of this daughter was also able to get her son to become an officer in the military before the age that was allowed to get in. The court was a patronage to the nobles. They were always trying to outdo, keep the favor they had with the king, and try to sabotage the other nobles in court to be on top. Also, the nobles did pay taxes, but were exempted from paying certain taxes like the taille, which non-nobles had to pay. Certain lands the nobles owned were exempted from paying taxes on them. They always were in court to keep their status, because their status wasn’t stable. These are two examples of favors the king could give to his subjects and ideas of what some of the nobles were doing to keep their status. They also had other privileges based on their social status in French