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The French revolution : 1789-1815
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- Creator
- by Shailer Mathews
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New edition revised and enlarged
- New York : Longmans, Green and Co., 1923
- Physical Details
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- x, 466 pages ; 20 cm
- OCLC
- ocn899141584
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The absolute monarchy -- Economic inequality -- Inequalities of privilege -- The morals of the Old Régime -- The clergy and religion -- The disintegration of authority by philosophy -- The development of the revolutionary spirit under Louis XV -- The reform movement under Turgot and Necker -- Bankruptcy and the convocation of the states general -- The states general and the evolution of the national assembly -- The uprising of the masses -- The end of the Old Régime -- The reorganization of France -- The progress of the revolutionary spirit -- Foreign war and the end of the monarchy -- The Jacobin conquest -- The republic under the terror -- The reign of terror as a political experiment -- The dictatorship of Robespierre -- The return of constitutional government -- The directory and Napoleon Bonaparte -- The consulate -- The empire and the reorganization of Europe -- The fall of the empire -- The close of the revolutionary cycle