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1st Edition

France Government and Society

Edited By J.M. Wallace-Hadrill, J. McManners Copyright 1957
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge
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First published in 1957, France is a collection of essays which was originally delivered as lectures in the University of Oxford. While there is an intense interest in French history, it is still true to say that no satisfactory short history of France is available to the English reader. A single writer, or, indeed, a group of two or three writers could not hope to master the state of studies... Read more

Introduction 1. Prehistory and the Gaulish Peoples C. F. C Hawkes 2. Roman Gaul C. E. Stevens 3. Frankish Gaul J. M. Wallace-Hadrill 4. Capetian France Beryl Smalley 5. France of the Hundred Years War and the Renaissance C. A. J. Armstrong 6. The Making of Absolute Monarchy (1559-1683) Menna Prestwich 7. The Decline of Absolute Monarchy (1683-1774) J. S. Bromley 8. The Revolution and its Antecedents (1774-1794) John McManners 9. Napoleonic France F. M. H. Markham 10. From Restoration to Republic A. F. Thompson 11. From Dreyfus to Vichy P. M. Williams 12. The Fourth Republic (1945-1955) Max Beloff

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J. M. Wallace-Hadrill and J. McManners

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