France and the age of revolution : regimes old and new from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte / William Doyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doyle, William, 1942- author.

Series:

International library of historical studies ; v. 91.

International library of historical studies ; v. 91

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--History--1789-1815.

France.

History.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

Physical Description:

vi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2013.

Summary:

From the turmoil and tragedy of the French Revolution to the rise and fall of the enigmatic figure of Napoleon Bonaparte, the history of France between 1789 and 1815 is one of the most enduringly fascinating - and widely-studied - periods of history. In this volume, the renowned historian William Doyle provides a new perspective on several key themes within the history of this period - from the world of the Ancien Régime to the Battle of Waterloo. He sheds new light on the causes of the French Revolution and the impact of the revolution outside France. In taking a fresh look at the Napoleonic Empire, he considers the influences on Napoleon's leadership decisions and the machinations of his court. Written by one of the leading historians of Revolutionary France, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the French Revolution and Napoleonic Europe. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Functions for Sale

1 Colbert and the Sale of Offices 7

2 Voltaire and Venality: The Ambiguities of an Abuse 25

3 Secular Simony: The Clergy and the Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France 39

4 Changing Notions of Public Corruption (C.1770-C.1850) 57

Part II The Old Order Disintegrates

5 The Union with Ireland in a European Context 77

6 The French Revolution: Possible because Thinkable or Thinkable because Possible? 95

7 Desacralising Desacralisation 103

8 The French Revolution and Monarchy 113

9 The American Revolution and the European Nobility 129

Part III Napoleon: An Undemocratic Revolutionary

10 The Napoleonic Nobility Revisited 149

11 Napoleon, Women and the French Revolution 159

12 The Political Culture of the French Empire 175

13 Revolutionary Napoleon 189.

ISBN:

9781780764443

1780764448

1780764456

9781780764450

OCLC:

826659578