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Real Queen of France Athenais & Louis
by Lisa Hilton  Synopsis The reign of Athenais de Montespan as principal mistress of Louis XIV corresponds with the most glorious period of the Grand Siecle. Athenais was "the true Queen of France", symbol of a dazzling French culture in the 17th century. This biography explores...
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Reflections on the French Revolution :a Hillsdale symposium
by Stephen J Tonsor Publisher Comments The bicentennial of the French Revolution produced hundreds of articles and books, but none more penetrating than this. --Forrest...
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Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV
by Le Roy Ladurie Publisher Comments The Duke of Saint-Simon (1675-1755) was by all accounts, including his own, a sensitive, self-obsessed, ill-tempered man. A courtier and phenomenal chronicler of court life under Louis XIV, he produced the monumental work Memoirs, running to thousands of...
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The Oxford History of the French Revolution
by William Doyle Publisher Comments The French Revolution of 1789 lasted for almost ten years, and when it ended, the political and social order of France had been dramatically altered. The absolute rule of the monarch had ceased, and feudalism had been destroyed. With the end of the...
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The Ideology of the Great Fear: The Soissonnais in 1789
by Clay Ramsay Publisher Comments Ramsay] illustrates how the political configuration of the ancien rgime was transformed into a dynamic and much more problematic situation with potentialities for revolutionary change and sharp social conflicts. There is much to learn and ponder in this...
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Questions of the French Revolution: A Historical Overview
by Jacques Sole Book News Annotation In a straightforward question-and-answer format, Sole (U. of Social Sciences, Grenoble) provides an overview of the Revolution's origins, development, and effects, as well as the arguments that have raged about these issues. The foreword is by Eugen...
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Old and New Nobility in Aix-En-Provence, 1600-1695: Portrait of an Urban Elite
by Donna Bohanan Book News Annotation Challenging the prevailing view that a new nobility displaced the old in 17th-century France, Bohanan (history, Auburn U.) focuses on five families in a southern city to argue that the old and new cooperated and merged. Draws heavily on quantitative...
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The Addisonian tradition in France :passion and objectivity in social observation
by Ralph Arthur Nablow Publisher Comments This work focuses on reportorial writers in the French eighteenth and early ninteenth centuries who wrote in the Addisonian tradition -- a tradition that has to do with the dispassionate observation of individuals and society. Illustrated....
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Citizens :a chronicle of the French Revolution
by Simon Schama Publisher Comments Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology -- a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations. From the...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
by Edmund Burke Publisher Comments This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutionary thought for two hundred years offers readers a dire warning of the consequences that follow the mismanagement of change. Written for a...
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The Making of an Insurrection: Parisian Sections and the Gironde
by Morris Slavin Publisher Comments The insurrection of 31 May-2 June 1793 that overthrew the Girondins and brought the Montagnards to power was a decisive event in the history of the French Revolution. Morris Slavin's study is the first that discusses the background, the mechanisms, and...
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Harvard Historical Monographs #0066: Provincial Magistrates and Revolutionary Politics in France, 1789-1795
by Philip Dawson Publisher Comments It is commonly agreed that the history of France at the end of the eighteenth century was influenced powerfully, at times decisively, by collective interests and group actions. Yet, as Philip Dawson shows, this consensus has been the foundation of...
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Further Reflections on the Revolution in France
by Edmund Burke Publisher Comments In his famous Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Edmund Burke excoriated French revolutionary leaders for recklessly destroying France's venerable institutions and way of life. But his war against the French intelligentsia did not end there,...
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The Man Who Would Be King: The Life of Philippe D'Orleans, Regent of France
by Christine Pevitt Publisher Comments Many consider Philippe to be France's equivalent to Richard III: a royal regent who would be accused of debauchery, treason, incest, and murder. Philippe threw Voltaire in prison and coveted the throne for himself. Once an accomplished soldier and artist,...
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French Revolution From 1793 To 1799 Volume 2
by Georges Lefebvre Review "Lefebvre tells the story of what actually happened — not only in the first and most reputable years of the Revolution, but also during the times of war and terror, the Thermidorian reaction, and the Directory, up to the establishment of the...
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The Vanishing Children of Paris: Rumor and Politics Before the French Revolution
by Arlette Farge About the Author Arlette Fargeis Director of Research in Modern History, <>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris....
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Journal of My Life
by Jacques Lou Menetra Publisher Comments Jaques-Louis Menetra's 'Journal de ma vie' reads like a historian's dream come true...It conveys his understanding of what it meant to grow up in Paris, where he was born in 1738; to tramp around provincial shops on a journeyman's tour de France; to...
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Love & Louis XIV
by Antonia Fraser Publisher Comments Subtitled, "The Women In The Life Of The Sun King". This book centres around the Sun King and his relationship with numerous and fascinating women. It vividly brings to life the vast edifice of Louis XIV's court; the magnificence, artistic splendour...
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Valincour: The Limits of Honnetete
by Charles Williams Book News Annotation Investigates the life and career of Valincour (1653-1730), who occupied prominent governmental posts in the household of le comte de Toulouse (son of Louis XIV and Admiral of France), and exercised extensive responsibility for the French navy...
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The Bourbons: The History of a Dynasty
by J.h Shennan Synopsis This book tells the fascinating story of this great French dynasty....
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