📓 Excerpt from Nobiliaire de Saint-Mihiel, Vol. 1Aux yeux de ces Princes, la Noblesse était donc] elevation des plus méritants parmi les hommes en vue de les récompenser et d' exciter les autres à les imiter.Et cette faveur leur attribuait tous les honneurs de ce bas monde avec affranchissement de toutes charges publiques, hors le service militaire, où encore les grades leur étaient réservés.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.