The Great Nation France From Louis Xv To Napoleon
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The Great Nation France from Louis XV to Napoleon
Author | : Colin Jones |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2003-05-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780141937205 |
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There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to his successors in 1715 became the discredited, debt-ridden failure toppled by Revolution in1789. The further story of the bloody unravelling of the Revolution until its seizure by Napoleon is equally astounding. Colin Jones' brilliant new book is the first in 40 years to describe the whole period. Jones' key point in this gripping 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.
The Great Nation
Author | : Colin Jones |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231128827 |
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The French Revolution has never seemed as revolutionary as in Jones's magnificent new history of the period from the death of Louis XIV in 1715 to the advent of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799. The implosive events become all the more remarkable in light of Jones's exposition of the social forces that brought down a colossus.
The Great Nation
Author | : Colin Jones |
Publsiher | : Allan Lane |
Total Pages | : 650 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 0713990392 |
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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.
Napoleon in Council
Author | : comte Privat Joseph Claramond Pelet de la Lozère |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1837 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : OXFORD:555011544 |
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The Cambridge Illustrated History of France
Author | : Colin Jones |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1999-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521669928 |
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Combining superb illustration with authoritative text, this is a major political and social history of France from earliest times to the eve of the new millennium. Colin Jones offers not only an expert's account of political, social and cultural developments, but also a fresh and full interpretation of French history. The Cambridge Illustrated History of France places an innovatory emphasis on the importance of issues of regionalism, class, gender and race in the French heritage. Ranging across social, political, geographical and cultural lines - from prehistoric menhirs to the Pompidou Centre, from Louis XIV's Versailles to twentieth-century high-rises, from Marie Antoinette to Marie Claire - the author provides a host of lively and penetrating new insights into the shaping of the modern nation.
The Fall of Robespierre
Author | : Colin Jones |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2021-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780191025044 |
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The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year directed the Reign of Terror, was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced. By 12.00 midnight at the close of the day, following a day of uncertainty, surprises, upsets and reverses, his world had been turned upside down. He was an outlaw, on the run, and himself wanted for conspiracy against the Republic. He felt that his whole life and his Revolutionary career were drawing to an end. As indeed they were. He shot himself shortly afterwards. Half-dead, the guillotine finished him off in grisly fashion the next day. The Fall of Robespierre provides an hour-by-hour analysis of these 24 hours.
France Before the Revolution
Author | : J. H. Shennan |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781136161582 |
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This fully revised second edition takes account of historical work produced during the last decade. Covering the period between Louis XIV's death in 1715 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, it discusses: * France's accomplishments in international affairs, commercial expansion, and intellectual and artistic life * the significance of long-term political, social and economic forces in causing the Revolution * how the changing perception of government, from one of divine-right kingship towards the idea of a national enterprise, ultimately undermined the old regime.
From Louis XIV to Napoleon
Author | : Professor Jeremy Black,Jeremy Black |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2013-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781135357641 |
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Much of the period 1661-1815 appeared to be the age of France. France was the greatest power in Western Europe in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and Louis XIV and Napoleon seemed to dominate their periods. yet when Louis XIV died in 1715, and again after Napoleon's attempt to resume power was defeated at Waterloo a century later, France appeared as a waning power. This failure in Europe was matched on the world scale. France was overtaken by Britain in the struggle for maritime predominance, and ended the period with her empire in ruins. From Louis XIV to Napoleon is a scholarly yet accessible account which considers why France was not more successful and throws light on French history, international relations, warfare and the rise and fall of French power.