This fully revised second edition takes account of historical work produced during the last decade. Covering the period between Louis XIV's death in 1715 and th

"France before 1789 presents the main features of the prodigiously complex social system of the ancien regime which proceeded the French Revolution. In doing so

The book I now publish is not a history of the French Revolution; that history has been written with too much success for me to attempt to write it again. This