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The French revolution from the age of Louis XIV to the coming of Napoleon / by Harold F.B. Wheeler.

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Wheeler, Harold, 1877-
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.; France.; History.
Physical Description:: xix, 478 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:: New York : F.A. Stokes, [1914]
Contents:: A century of conflicts; Losses and conflicts; The setting of the Sun king; The age of disillusion; Twenty years of war; The seeds of revolt; Voltaire's crusade against the "Infamous"; The foe of kings; Diderot and the Encyclopédie; The first years of Louis XVI; Spendthrift France; Queen, cardinal, and bauble; The struggle with the Parlements; The meeting of the States-General; How royal authority was lost; The sovereign people; The rights of men; A banquet at Versailles and its sequel; The clubs and the church; The fête in the Champs de Mars; Mirabeau, the man of power; The flight to Varennes; The massacre of the Champs de Mars; The constitution and the legislative assembly; The enemies at the gate; The beginning of the great war; The attack on the Tuileries and the September massacres; The passing of Louis Capet; The fall of the Girondists; The reign of terror; The "whiff of grapeshot"; The coming of Napoleon; Index.
OCLC:: 19292744

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