[OC] Chances to attend a "Grande Ecole (Top university) in France. If you want to attend "ENA", the best university in France, you have 330x chances if your father graduated from there.Eurymedion t1_itehj2q wrote
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Multiple revolutions, but France let the nobles keep their titles without the degree of power and influence they had before. In theory anyway.
takingastep t1_itejnau wrote
Yeah, "in theory". "In reality" seems to have become a different animal.
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:
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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