A History of Modern France: Old régime and Revolution, 1715-1790Penguin Books, 1957 - France |
Contents
EDITORIAL FOREWORD | 7 |
THE AGE OF REFORM | 79 |
THE DECADE OF REVOLUTION | 149 |
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agitators alliance ancien régime aristocratic assignat attack August Austrian authority Belle-Isle Bonaparte Brissot Brissotins Britain Chauvelin Choiseul Church clergy Committee of Public Constituent Assembly Constitution Controller-General Convention council coup d'état court Danton death declared decree defeat distress Dumouriez economic edict eighteenth century elected enemies Europe faction favour Fleury force foreign France French army French Revolution généralités ideas influence intrigues Jacobin Club June king king's liberty livres Louis XIV Marie-Antoinette massacres Maupeou Maurepas ment ministers ministry Mme de Pompadour monarchy National Guard Necker nobles noblesse opposition parlement of Paris Patriots peace peasants political Pompadour popular prison privileged classes provinces Public Safety queen reform regent restore Revolution revolutionary Robespierre royal finances secret September Seven Years War Sieyes social struggle success taxes Terray terror Third Estate tion tionary took trade Turgot Versailles victory vols Voltaire voted