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The Ancien Regime: A History of France 1610 - 1774 / Edition 1

The Ancien Regime: A History of France 1610 - 1774 / Edition 1

by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
The Ancien Regime: A History of France 1610 - 1774 / Edition 1
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ISBN-10:
0631211969
ISBN-13:
9780631211969
Pub. Date:
01/05/1999
Publisher:
Wiley
ISBN-10:
0631211969
ISBN-13:
9780631211969
Pub. Date:
01/05/1999
Publisher:
Wiley
The Ancien Regime: A History of France 1610 - 1774 / Edition 1

The Ancien Regime: A History of France 1610 - 1774 / Edition 1

by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

Overview

This is a story of brilliance, order and sophistication, of supreme confidence and great achievement - that begins in uncertainty and ends in iconoclasm.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780631211969
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 01/05/1999
Series: History of France , #1
Edition description: 631st Revised ed.
Pages: 596
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 9.49(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is the author of numerous books - including the immensely successful Montaillouand Carnival - and many articles. He is a researcher with a high international reputation, and the diversity of his work and range of his publications have made him one of the foremost specialists on France's monarchical period.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations.

List of Tables and Graphs.

1. Temperate Monarchy in its Last Incarnation.

Part I: Absolutism in its True Grandeur:.

2. Reason of State and its Irrationalities.

3. France and the Fronde: the Age of Anne of Austria and Mazarin.

4. The Snake and the Sun.

5. Gallican Extremism.

6. Spain in the Heart.

Part II: Flexible and Adaptable: The New Absolutism:.

7. The Overture.

8. A Debonnaire Hercules.

9. Reaction and Retraction.

10. Public Opinion's First Successes.

11. Order, Authority, Realm.

Conclusion.

Appendix 1: Chronological Table.

Appendix 2: Statistical Tables.

Glossary.

Bibliography.

Index.

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