The era of the French Revolution(1715-1815)
Louis R. Gottschalk
- Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1929
- 509 p
"This book is based upon the six booklets covering the same field of history that were published by the author between 1923 and 1925"--Preface.
Dissatisfaction and reform -- The ancient regime -- Government under the ancient regime -- Society under the ancient regime -- The political philosophy of the eighteenth century -- Staving off the revolution -- The fall of the monarchy -- The estates general become the national assembly -- The people prevent counter-revolution -- The triumph of the bourgeoisie -- The counter-revolution -- Constitutional monarchy fails -- The first French republic -- The Girondin supremacy in the convention -- The Jacobin supremacy in the convention -- The Thermidorian reaction -- The directory -- Stabilization and reaction -- The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte -- Napoleon Bonaparte becomes master of France -- Napoleon Bonaparte becomes monarch of France -- Crystallization of the revolution -- Napoleon becomes master in Europe -- Defeat and reaction -- The continental system -- Liberation, abdication and restoration -- Restoration and reaction in Europe -- The hundred days.
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French 1769-1821
--France --France--Revolution, 1789-1799 Consulate and First Empire--France--1799-1815