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The Great Nation : France from Louis XV to Napoleon, The French Revolution has never seemed as revolutionary as in Colin Jones's magnificent new history of the period from the death of Louis XIV, the Sun King, in 1715 to the advent of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799. During the middle decades of the eighteenth, The Great Nation : France from Louis XV to Napoleon
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  • The Great Nation : France from Louis XV to Napoleon
  • Written by author Colin Jones
  • Published by Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1/1/2002
  • The French Revolution has never seemed as revolutionary as in Colin Jones's magnificent new history of the period from the death of Louis XIV, the "Sun King," in 1715 to the advent of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799. During the middle decades of the eighteenth
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
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1 France in 1715: The King's Leg and the Choreography of Power 1
a The Mythic Present of the Sun King 1
b The Bourbon Polity 6
c The King's Nobility 13
d Absolutism under Pressure 18
e The Dreaded Regency 28
2 Negotiating Stormy Weather: The Regency and the Advent of Fleury (1715-26) 36
a Hope beyond Sunset 36
b The Polysynody Experiment 39
c Princes, Dukes and Magistrates: A New Fronde? 43
d The Financial and Economic Context of the Regency 52
e A Scottish Wizard in a Land of Troubles 61
f The Childhood of Louis XV: Six Funerals and a Wedding 73
3 Fleury's France (1726-43) 82
a Hercules on a Tightrope 82
b Tridentine Themes ... 91
c ... and Jansenist Variations 99
d The King's Information: News, Views, Secrets, Lies 110
e The Wilting Cardinal 119
4 Unsuspected Golden Years (1743-56) 125
a Herod 'the Well-Beloved'? 125
b The Balance of Power and the Globalization of Warfare 133
c Flexing the Sinews of War 139
d Vital Signs in Rural France 148
e Health and Wealth by Stealth 159
5 An Enlightening Age 171
a The Moment of the Encyclopedie 171
b Points of Light 178
c Civilised Man, Natural Woman 186
d Re-enchanting a Disenchanted World 197
e The Contested Politics of the Public Sphere 212
6 Forestalling Deluge (1756-70) 226
a Damiens's Epiphany 226
b Things Fall Apart: The Seven Years War 236
c Choiseulian Scapegoats: Devots and Jesuits 245
d The Monarchy Retools 252
e Languages of Patriotism: The Judges Judged 259
f From the Brittany Affair to the Maupeou Revolution 271
7 The Triumvirate and Its Aftermath (1771-84) 280
a Maupeou's Revolution 280
b The Turgot Experiment 292
c Patriotism al'Americaine 301
d The Price of Patriotism 310
e Figaro's Masters 322
8 Bourbon Monarchy on the Rack (1784-8) 336
a Diamonds: Not a Queen's Best Friend 336
b The Appearance of Luxury and the Luxury of Appearances 349
c Silent Revolution in an Age of Noise 364
d The Elusive Public: Financial and Institutional Reform 378
9 Revolution in Political Culture (1789-91) 395
a Imagining the Nation, Fearing the Worst 395
b Summer Lightning 410
c The Task of Political Architecture 422
d Demolition Problems 433
10 War and Terror (1791-5) 449
a Aux Armes, Citoyens! 449
b Louis Capet Bows Out, Terror Bows In 462
c The Glacial Logic of Republican Unity 476
d Killing Robespierre, Ending Terror 494
11 The Unsteady Republic (1795-9) 507
a Shaky Foundations 507
b Revolution: A User's Guide 520
c Economic Fortunes and Misfortunes 536
d Bourgeois Revolutionaries ... 544
e ... and their Other(s) 552
Conclusion: The Brumaire Leviathan and la Grande Nation 568
Notes 581
Further Reading 613
Index 615


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