There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to hi
The French Revolution has never seemed as revolutionary as in Jones's magnificent new history of the period from the death of Louis XIV in 1715 to the advent of
This volume explores the historical narrative of how the confident and secure monarchy that Louis XIV, The Sun King, left to his successors in 1715 became the d
Combining superb illustration with authoritative text, this is a major political and social history of France from earliest times to the eve of the new millenni
The economic history of revolutionary France is still a neglected area in studies of the Revolution of 1789. Whilst some attention has been given to the conditi