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The great nation : France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715-99
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The great nation : France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715-99

Author: Colin Jones
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Colin Jones
ISBN: 0231128827 9780231128827
OCLC Number: 51625025
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, The Penguin Press"--T.p. verso.
Description: xxvi, 650 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1 France in 1715: The King's Leg and the Choreography of Power 1 --
2 Negotiating Stormy Weather: The Regency and the Advent of Fleury (1715-26) 36 --
3 Fleury's France (1726-43) 82 --
4 Unsuspected Golden Years (1743-56) 125 --
5 An Enlightening Age 171 --
6 Forestalling Deluge (1756-70) 226 --
7 The Triumvirate and Its Aftermath (1771-84) 280 --
8 Bourbon Monarchy on the Rack (1784-8) 336 --
9 Revolution in Political Culture (1789-91) 395 --
10 War and Terror (1791-5) 449 --
11 The Unsteady Republic (1795-9) 507 --
Conclusion: The Brumaire Leviathan and la Grande Nation 568.
Other Titles: France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715-99
Responsibility: Colin Jones.

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