Possible Clues:

• Raise status of East German city taken over by the French
• Bestow honour upon
• Confer dignity or honor upon
• Raise to the aristocracy
• Make lord over in novel bonnet
• Raise to a high rank
• To make aristocratic, raise the Spanish hat endlessly
• Kick upstairs
• Dress in ermine, standing up in novel bonnet
• Dignify returning the Spanish hat unfinished