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Unlike ENgland, Grench Aristocrats were banned from a number of professions including participation in commerce. As it turn out this was a huge disadvantage to the French. Is it at all realistic that the reforms that took place in the English Aristocracy could have somehow translated into France in teh late 1500's?
Could the French Aristocracts have been allowed to participate in commerce gain higher degrees and so forth without destroying the French social fabric?