Description: I. MODERNIZATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRANCE. 1. "The Oldest Nation of Europe." 2. The Structure of Eighteenth-Century French Society. 3. The Beginnings of Modernization. 4. Culture and Thought in Eighteenth-Century France. 5. A Government under Challenge. II. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1787-1814. 6. The Bankruptcy of the Old Monarchy. 7. Successes and Failures of the Liberal Revolution. 8. The Revolutionary Republic. 9. The Return to Order. 10. The Napoleonic Years. III. THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION. 11. The Restoration. 12. The July Monarchy and Its Critics. 13. A New Social World. 14. The Revolution of 1848: The Crisis of Bourgeois Society. 15. The Second Empire's Decade of Prosperity. 16. The Second Empire in Difficulties. IV. THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. 17. The Republic Finally Ascendant. 18. The Victory of the Republicans. 19. New Challenges to the Republic. 20. Challenges to Consensus.. 21. The Cultural Climate of the Fin-de-Sicle. 22. Into the New Century. V. THE AGE OF CATASTROPHES. 23. The Coming of the War. 24. Crisis, Victory, Disillusionment. 25. France between the Wars. 26. The Illusion of Normality. 27. From the Popular Front to the War. 28. France in the Second World War. 29. The Road to Liberation. VI. Recovery and Uncertainty. 30. The Revival of the Parliamentary Republic. 31. From the Fourth to the Fifth Republic. 32. A France "Married to Its Century." 33. France after De Gaulle. 34. The Mitterrand Years. Guide to Further Reading. Index.

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