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takingastep t1_itd1xi3 wrote

> noble family

…Didn’t they do a whole revolution to try to get away from having a landed aristocracy?

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satellite51 t1_itdd5sy wrote

OP wrote Nobel, so I understood it as having a Nobel prize winning family name. :D

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Tark1nn t1_itgf4u7 wrote

no op made a mistake it is indeed noble not nobel

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Eurymedion t1_itehj2q wrote

Multiple revolutions, but France let the nobles keep their titles without the degree of power and influence they had before. In theory anyway.

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takingastep t1_itejnau wrote

Yeah, "in theory". "In reality" seems to have become a different animal.

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Eurymedion t1_itekpjf wrote

Names carry a lot of cachet regardless. Here's an article on how much influence French nobility still wield even though they technically have little legal standing in France:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37655777

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glium t1_itiabgb wrote

How is that your take away from this article, when it's just a ton of people debating whether they should be called nobles ?

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Fer4yn t1_itfsi58 wrote

Stripping nobility of their political privileges while letting them keep their wealth effectively amounts to nothing; the former noblemen simply become the top players of the capitalist game.

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takingastep t1_itg6j73 wrote

I completely agree, because that's precisely what's happened IRL. Aristocrats, like billionaires, should not exist, and their power base (primarily money/assets/whatever political authority they've acquired) needs to be stripped from them entirely.

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Pyrenees_ t1_itgq18o wrote

They still unofficially hold titles, and they have particles like Du Château instead of Château or Duchâteau

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Mwakay t1_itgrw7l wrote

It comes from a french study (that I stumbled upon recently), so I assume OP just mistranslated and meant influent/rich/powerful/top 1%. We don't have "official" nobility anymore, eventhough some families retain titles.

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