N. ELIAS ON SOCIOCULTURAL ATTITUDES OF THE FRENCH ARISTOCRACY OF THE ABSOLUTE MONARCHY PERIOD

Abstract

The paper discusses the views of German historian and sociologist N. Elias (1897 – 1990) on the French aristocracy of the absolute monarchy period. The author identifies sociocultural attitudes and behavioural features of the French aristocracy and reveals the reasons of their evolution in the 17th -18th centuries as interpreted by N. Elias.

Keywords

• n. elias
• absolutism
• french aristocracy
• sociocultural attitudes and behavioural features of the french aristocracy