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xiii, 633 pages 24 cm Includes bibliographical references Introduction / by Crane Brinton -- Chapter one: Social classes under the old regime -- Introduction -- Robe and sword, the regrouping of the French aristocracy after Louis XIV / Franklin L. Ford -- A re-evaluation of the "aristocratic revolt" / Albert Goodwin -- Capitalist and proprietary wealth and the definition of the Bourgeoisie / George V. Taylor -- The peasantry on the eve of the French revolution / Georges Lefebvre -- Ideas of reform among the French lower clergy, 1787-1789 / Maurice G. Hutt -- Chapter two: The enlightenment -- Introduction -- Desertion of intellectuals and nobles as a pre-revolutionary phenomenon / Crane Brinton -- The philosophes and their environment / Peter Gay -- The French Jesuits in the age of enlightenment / R.R. Palmer -- The political philosophy of Helvétius and d'Holbach / Everett C. Ladd, Jr. -- The influence of eighteenth-century ideas on the French revolution / Henri Peyre -- The image and influence of America in the French enlightenment / Durand Echeverria -- Chapter three: The decline of the old regime and the debacle of French foreign policy -- Louis XV: The monarchy in decline / G.P

Author

James Friguglietti and Emmet Kennedy. Introd. by Crane Brinton

Publisher

Macmillan (N.Y.) : Collier-Macmillan

Published

1969

Language

EN

ISBN

9780023399107

Subjects

Travel, History, Humanities