pays d'état
English
Alternative forms
- pays d'états
Etymology
From French pays d'états.
Noun
pays d'état (plural pays d'état)
- (historical) Any of several provinces of pre-Revolutionary France which retained their own local assemblies.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 272:
- Brittany was a pays d'état and while the province's elite of ancient Sword nobles controlled the Parlement at Rennes, its provincial estates were dominated by its extensive poor nobility [...].
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 272:
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