French nobility
Social class in Middle Ages and early modern France
French nobility
The French nobility (French: la noblesse française) is an aristocratic social class in France dating from the Middle Ages. From 1808 to 1815 during the First Empire the Emperor Napoléon bestowed titles that were recognized as a new nobility by the Charter of 4 June 1814 granted by King Louis XVIII. From 1814 to 1848 (Bourbon Restoration in France and July Monarchy) and from 1852 to 1870 (Second French Empire) the French nobility was restored as a hereditary distinction without any privileges and new hereditary titles were granted. Since the beginning of the French Third Republic on 4 September 1870 the French nobility has no legal existence and status. However, the ancient authentic titles transmitted regularly can be recognized in the Grand Livre du Sceau (equivalent to the British Roll of the Peerage) as part of the name after a request to the Department of Justice. Families of the French nobility could have two origins as to their principle of nobility: the families of immemorial nobility...
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