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What did the aristocracy, rich landowners, do that allowed them to take power away from the King?

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after the 1830s, in country after country, the aristocracies tended to lose their historic dominance over wealth and political power. The French Revolution in the 1790s forced many aristocrats into exile, relieving them of their lands and power.

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