Download or read book The Court Society written by Norbert Elias and published by Collected Works of Norbert Elias. This book was released on 2006 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study of the life of nobility at the royal court of France, especially under Louis XIV, has long been out of print. Elias shows how courtiers and the king himself were entrapped in a web of etiquette and ceremonial, and how their expenses were dictated by their rank rather than their income.