Abstract
When in March 1771 the leaders of the Paris Cour des Aides were summoned to Versailles to watch Louis XV annul their decree protesting the judicial reforms of Maupeou, one of their embattled number marveled at the deference shown him and his fellows by the quantite de Seigneurs, de militaires et de courtisans de tout etat who were likewise present. Such respect, according to President de Boisgibault,frappa d'autant plus que gens de Robe sont ordinairement regardes d'un tout autre oeil a la cour et que quelquefois ils ont assez de peine a entrer lorsque le Roi fait demander.1 De Boisgibault was not alone in marking the persistence of tensions between the magisterial and military nobility in late eighteenthcentury France. Yet some historians have assured us that a solidarity of interests of robe and sword characterized this period in France and that in fact the magisterial nobility, having succumbed to the standards of the older status group,2 surpassed the military noblesse in practicing les differentes formes de 'reaction nobiliaire.' 3 The most recent scholarship has criticized this notion of an aristocratic reaction in the twilight of the Old Regime.4 Certainly there is evidence
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