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Colin Jones is Professor of History at the University of Warwick and is now writing PARIS: A HISTORY for Allen Lane.

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France in 1715 - the king's leg and the choreography of power; negotiating stormy weather - the Regency and the advent of Fleury (1715-26); Fleury's France (1726-43); unsuspected golden years (1743-56); an enlightening age; forestalling deluge (1756-70); the triumvirate and its aftermath (1771-84); Bourbon monarchy on the rack (1784-8); revolution in political culture (1789-91); war and terror (1791-5); the unsteady republic (1795-9). (Part contents)

The Great Nation France from Louis XV to Napoleon

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 5/29/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780140130935, 978-0140130935
      ISBN10: 0140130934

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Colin Jones is Professor of History at the University of Warwick and is now writing PARIS: A HISTORY for Allen Lane.

      Table of Contents
      France in 1715 - the king's leg and the choreography of power; negotiating stormy weather - the Regency and the advent of Fleury (1715-26); Fleury's France (1726-43); unsuspected golden years (1743-56); an enlightening age; forestalling deluge (1756-70); the triumvirate and its aftermath (1771-84); Bourbon monarchy on the rack (1784-8); revolution in political culture (1789-91); war and terror (1791-5); the unsteady republic (1795-9). (Part contents)

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