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<p><i>France</i> <i>1715¿1804: Power and the People</i> is a major new study of eighteenth century French society and politics which focuses on the struggles, beliefs and political significance of the poor.</p> <p>Gwynne Lewis¿ history opens with a full analysis of all the components of traditional France, including political and religious structures, the seigneurial system, the bourgeoisie and the poor. Part two examines the meaning and challenge of the Enlightenment, with particular reference to women and the mass of the poor. Part three concentrates upon the relationship between the shift to laissez-faire economics, popular revolts and government repression, providing the essential background to the Revolutionary decade of the 1790s. The Revolution witnessed the rise of a politicised ¿Popular Movement¿ that achieved, briefly, a measure of popular democracy. War and counter-revolution blocked the move towards real democracy, strengthened the authority of the centralised state, and enhanced the credibility of bourgeois political and economic power.</p> <p>One of the main contentions of this work is that the failure of both monarchical and Revolutionary regimes to deal with the mas

Author

Gwynne Lewis

Publisher

Pearson/Longman; Routledge

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317891680

Subjects

History, Humanities