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xv, 642 pages, 1 21 cm

"Select bibliography": pages 617-632

The land of the Gauls and the French -- The Roman province and the Frankish kingdom -- From Franks to Frenchmen -- The golden age of feudalism (996-1270) -- Life in the feudal ages -- The dawn of the modern era (1270-1483) -- The turbulent sixteenth century (1483-1610) -- The great cardinal and his successor -- Louis XIV, the Sun King: his work in France -- Louis XIV, dominator of Europe -- The wane of the old monarchy -- France, the homeland of new ideas -- Old France on the eves of the Revolution -- The fiery coming of the new regime (1789-92) -- The years of blood and wrath (1792-95) -- Napoleon Bonaparte, as master of Europe -- The Napoleonic regime in France: the consulate and the empire -- "Glory and madness" - Moscow, Leipzig, and Waterloo -- The restored Bourbons and their exit -- The "Citizen-King" and the rule of the bourgeois ; Aspects of French life under the restored monarchy (1814-48) -- Radical outbreaks and the reaction to Caesarism: the Second Republic (1848-51) -- Napoleon the Little: his prosperity and decadence -- The crucifixion by Prussia (1870-71) -- The painful birth of the Third Republic -- The years of peace (1879-1914) ; The extension of the colonial empire of France under the Third Republic -- France herself again -- Appendix A. Outline chronology of French history -- Appendix B. The states general (1302-1789) / compiled by Gertrude A. Jacobsen

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