The course of French history / Pierre Goubert ; translated by Maarten Ultee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goubert, Pierre.

Standardized Title:

Initiation à l'histoire de la France. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

France--History.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : F. Watts, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

`Lively, well-written, satirical and profound.' - Emmanuel Le Roy LadurieThis stimulating one-volume history traces the social and economic evolution of France as a nation from 987 to the present day.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of genealogies; List of maps; France under the early Capetians: 987 1180; The apogee of medieval France: the thirteenth century, 1180 1314; The misfortunes of the fourteenth century; The fifteenth century: a kingdom reborn from the ashes; The 'beautiful' sixteenth century: 1494 1552; Difficult times: 1560 1610; From Good King Henry to the Sun King: 1598 1661; The pleasant seasons of a great reign: 1661 1688; Autumn of the great century: 1689 1715; The age of Louis XV: 1715 1774; Louis XVI: 1774 1792; The Revolution during peacetime: 1789 1792

Revolution and war: 1792 1799France against Europe: the Napoleonic era, 1800 1815; France in the nineteenth century: a panorama; France under Napoleon III: 1851 1870; From debacle to revenge: 1870 1914; From the Great War to the near present (1914 1987); Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Translation of: Initiation a l'histoire de la France.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-318) and Index.

ISBN:

1-134-91927-1

1-134-91928-X

1-280-32282-9

0-203-41468-3

9780203414682

OCLC:

475876654