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19 Opportunities for advancement offered by the courts attracted ambitious outsiders whose arrivals in town heightened an increasingly bureaucratic atmosphere. Traditional (or "sword") nobles, administrative (or "robe") nobles, and a very important group with characteristics of both all congregated in Aix. They participated in municipal and royal government, dominated the surrounding countryside, and lived on the rents and revenues of scattered properties, judicial offices, and various other investments.
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie directed me to sources and to changes in approach that opened new areas of inquiry. And I am particularly indebted to Lloyd Moote and Orest Ranum who both, based on a very close and thoughtful reading of the manuscript, provided advice and criticism that sharpened its focus. I would also like to thank the staffs of the Archives Départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône, the Archives Communales d'Aix-en-Provence, and the Bibliothèque Méjanes, and in particular Charles Foucquart and Elisabeth Martinez, whose kind attention made my days in the Annexe d'Aix of the Archives Départmentales much more productive and enjoyable than they might otherwise have been.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bohanan, Donna, 1954 Old and new nobility in Aix-en-Provence, 16001695: portrait of an urban elite / Donna Bohanan. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. City and town lifeFranceAix-en-ProvenceHistory17th century. Title. 094491dc20 92-6707 CIP Some of the material in Chapters III and VII, respectively, appeared in the author's articles "Matrimonial Strategies Among Nobles of Seventeenth-Century Aix-en-Provence," Journal of Social History, XIX (1986), and "The Education of Nobles in Seventeenth-Century Aix-en-Provence," Journal of Social History, XX (1987).