The great nation : France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715-99 / Colin Jones.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.Description: xxvi, 650 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 0231128827 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715-99
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"First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, The Penguin Press"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 613-614) and index.
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.