By the 1780s [in France] four quarterings of nobility were needed even to buy a commission in the army, all bishops were nobles and even the keystone of royal administration, the intendancies, had been largely recaptured by them.
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By the 1780s [in France] four quarterings of nobility were needed even to buy a commission in the army, all bishops were nobles and even the keystone of royal administration, the intendancies, had been largely recaptured by them.
Source: wiktionary
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