The administrators came from the rural aristocracy.

Today, he has no political authority but members of this class form a rural aristocracy.

Poland is a country where the entrenched influence of an old, long-impoverished rural aristocracy persists to challenge the culture of a leveling Communism.

Like so many of the French monarchy's fiscal policies, this one failed before the opposition of France's urban and rural aristocracies.

But there were members of the rural population who cannot be described as simple villagers, notably the clergy and the rural aristocracy.

The greater magnates and the leaders of the rural and urban aristocracies were French in origin, and so was the law under which they lived.

He was part of the old rural aristocracy and surprised the country's elite when he embraced populist reforms after taking office.

He characterized the Catonist attitude as the reaction from rural aristocracy towards rapid political and economic changes:

These cities tried to keep their independence from the Count of Flanders and from the rural aristocracy.

There de la Roche began to develop her fictional world of rural aristocracy that would become Jalna.