The great nation : France from Louis XV to Napoleon
著者
書誌事項
The great nation : France from Louis XV to Napoleon
（Penguin books）（Penguin history）
Penguin, 2003
大学図書館所蔵 全4件
注記
"First published by Allen Lane The Penguin Press 2002"--T.p.verso
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
- 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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