This volume explores the historical narrative of how the confident and secure monarchy that Louis XIV, "The Sun King", left to his successors in 1715 became the discredited, debt-ridden failure toppled by revolution in 1789. It also examines the further story of the bloody unravelling of the Revolution until its seizure by Napoleon. Colin Jones' key point in his narrative is that France was not doomed to revolution and that the "ancien regime" did remain dynamic and innovatory, twisting and turning until finally stoven in ...
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This volume explores the historical narrative of how the confident and secure monarchy that Louis XIV, "The Sun King", left to his successors in 1715 became the discredited, debt-ridden failure toppled by revolution in 1789. It also examines the further story of the bloody unravelling of the Revolution until its seizure by Napoleon. Colin Jones' key point in his narrative is that France was not doomed to revolution and that the "ancien regime" did remain dynamic and innovatory, twisting and turning until finally stoven in by the intolerable costs and humiliation of its wars with Britain.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Hardcover, xxvi, 651 pp., 2 maps, illustrated jacket. A book in excellent condition; jacket with 2 inch tear on spine. Plunges the reader into the politics, society and culture of France at its height as the world's most powerful state.
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Good. Hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, closed dust jacket tear, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0231128827. Inscribed by the author; lightly rounded corners, blind stamp to title page, otherwise text clean and tight; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 688 pages.
