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| Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Maps | ||
| 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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Carla Brolin
reviewed The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon on February 20, 2012
The Great Nation
Back in the 1950s, Alfred Cobban wrote the first of what became a three-volume "History of Modern France" for Penguin Press. Together these books provided a primarily political history of France from the death of Louis XIV to the withdrawal from Algeria in 1962 and survived for decades as a standard English-language introduction to modern French history, thanks in no small measure to the readability and insights contained within the trilogy.
As time went along, however, Cobban's books increasingly suffered from the their inability to incorporate the ever-growing body of research into French history and the changes in our understanding which this has brought about. As a result, Penguin Press commissioned a new three-volume series designed to supplant Cobban's volumes. As is increasingly the case the task once entrusted to one historian was now divided amongst three specialists, with Colin Jones writing the volume covering France in the 18th century. While generally emulating Cobban in focusing mainly on political history, Jones gives more attention than his predecessor to social and cultural developments during this period, creating a more well-rounded overview as a result. Because of this, the book is chock full of insights absent from Cobban's book, with Jones's integration of the Enlightenment and his explanation of its influence on political developments a particularly notable improvement over Cobban's work. It's easy to see why it has supplanted Cobban's earlier volume as a standard history of 18th century France, one that will likely maintain that title for as long as its predecessor did.
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