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• Book Title: A History of France
• Author: Andre Maurois
• ISBN: 0234604848
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Year Published: 1969
• Our Price: £28.60 GBP ($47.48 USD)
• Description: Jonathan Cape 1969 reprint of 1949 edition: blue cloth hardcover: no dust jacket: 560 pages including index. Contents:- Book 1. The first beginnings and the middle ages. How Gaul became Roma, how the barbarians intermingled with the Gallo Romans, the Carolingians, the feudal system development, the Carpetians , the formation of the Kingdom of France, Louis 1X, Philip the Fair, French civilisation, The Hundred years War, France's recovery , the transition from the Middle Ages to modern times. Book 2 . Renaissance and Reformation. The Renaissance in Europe, Italy's relationship with France, France's strife the Germanic world, Life in the days of Francis 1 & Charles V, How the Reformation became a political party, the Wars of religion, Henry 1V, The Renaissance and Reformation's effect on France. Book 3. The absolute monarchy. Louis X111 and Richelieu, The Fronde, the king's domination, Louis X1V, The Regency and the monarchy, Louis XV, Louis XV1, The revolution of 1789. Book 4. The French Revolution. Its beginning, the assembly, how the monarchy perished, the committee of public safety, the reaction of Thermidor, the Consulate and Empire, the rebuilding of France's unity, the Emperor conquest of Europe, how The Emperor lost Europe, the consequences on the overthrowing of the King , how revolution and Empire transformed France. Book 5. Years of wavering. The restoration, the July monarchy, 1815 to 1848, the Second Republic, the Second Empire, the war of 1870, romanticism superseded. Book 6 . The Third Republic. A government of national defence, the Republic, the colonial rivalry between France and England, France before 1914, the 1944 War , 1919 to 1939, the Second World War, France liberated. Book 7. The Fourth and fifth republics. France since 1947. Conclusion. Index. Condition: ex-library book with label and stickers; tape remnants, and three pin-holes to cover: contents very clean and good: overall clean, firm and good.
• Condition: Collectable- Good
• Dustcover: No
• Binding: Hardback
• Type: Used Books

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