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Merit replaces birth as qualification for office

France · Revolution / Revolution of France. Chronological records from PostgreSQL.

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Merit replaces birth as qualification for office

de Beauharnais, Alexandre · Versailles · Viscount · Deputy

Alexandre de Beauharnais participated in an Assembly dismantling aristocratic restrictions on public advancement. Equal eligibility to civil and military employment challenged the political privileges of birth.

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