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  • A World of Paper

    Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State

    by John Rule, Ben Trotter ...
    Historians and social scientists have long identified bureaucracy as the modern state's foundation and the reign of France's Louis XIV as a model for its development. A World of Paper offers a fresh interpretation of bureaucracy through a close examination of the department of the Sun King's last foreign secretary, Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy.Torcy, who served as foreign secretary from 1696 ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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  • Liberty or Death

    The French Revolution

    by Peter McPhee ...
    A strinking account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globeThe French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime's study of eighteenth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Robespierre

    A Revolutionary Life

    by Peter McPhee ...
    For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793–94. This masterful biography combines new research into Robespierre's dramatic life ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Fall of Robespierre

    24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris

    by Colin Jones ...
    The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year directed the Reign of Terror, was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced. By 12.00 midnight ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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  • Children of the Revolution

    The French, 1799-1914

    by Robert Gildea ...
    Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumultuous century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the French Revolution's 'children' would experience their own wars, revolutions and terrors.From soldiers to priests, from peasants to Communards, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Éminence

    Cardinal Richelieu and the Rise of France

    by Jean-Vincent Blanchard ...
    Chief minister to King Louis XIII, Cardinal Richelieu was the architect of a new France in the seventeenth century, and the force behind the nation's rise as a European power. Among the first statesmen to clearly understand the necessity of a balance of powers, he was one of the early realist politicians, practicing in the wake of Niccolò Machiavelli. Truly larger than life, he has captured the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Life of Louis XVI

    by John Hardman ...
    A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history’s most maligned rulers: France’s Louis XVI“The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch.”—P. M. Jones, English Historical Review“Monumental. . . . Scholars probing the mysteries of the late Old Regime and French Revolution will be working in its shadow for many years to come.”—Thomas E. Kaiser, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Legend Of Napoleon

    by Sudhir Hazareesingh ...
    'God was bored with Napoleon,' wrote Victor Hugo, and the Emperor was duly defeated at Waterloo in 1815 and exiled to St Helena, where he died an agonizing and horrifying death. The Emperor's real legacy is the modernizing and beautifying of Paris, the official promotion of religious tolerance, the current French legal and educational systems, and the European Union, to name but a few Napoleonic ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Talleyrand

    by Philip G. Dwyer ...
    Series series Profiles In Power
    From church establishment figure to revolutionary, supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte to promoter of the Bourbon Restoration, the twists and turns of Charles Maurice Prince de Talleyrand’s remarkable career through one of the most turbulent periods of French and European history continue to fascinate. Witty and wiley, cynical and charming, Talleyrand has been portrayed as a cynical opportunist, ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Experiencing Exile

    Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680�1700

    by David van der Linden ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650-1750
    The persecution of the Huguenots in France, followed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, unleashed one of the largest migration waves of early modern Europe. Focusing on the fate of French Protestants who fled to the Dutch Republic, Experiencing Exile examines how Huguenot refugees dealt with the complex realities of living as strangers abroad, and how they seized upon religion and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • A Social History of the French Revolution

    by Norman Hampson ...
    The revolutionary movement which began in 1787 disrupted every aspect of French society, rising to a pitch of such extreme violence that the effects are still felt in France today. The Revolution was the product of social tensions that developed throughout France in the second half of the eighteenth century. Norman Hampson analyses the nature of these social conflicts within their political ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Montaigne

    A Life

    by Philippe Desan ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall, Lisa Neal ...
    A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his back on the world, and stoically detaching himself from his ... Read more

    $23.09 USD