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Causes of the French Revolution
Charter of 1814
Civil service
Committee of Public Safety
Conscription
Constitution of the Year VIII
Controller-General of Finances
Counter-revolutionary
Coup of 18 Brumaire
Economics
Edict of Nantes
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Estates-General of 1789
Expense
French campaign in Egypt and Syria
French Consulate
French Directory
French nobility
Government debt
Ideology
Income
Industrialisation
Institution
Intendant
Jacobin
Jean-Baptiste Say
Joseph Bonaparte
Joseph de Maistre
Juste milieu
Legion of Honour
Legislature
Louis XVIII of France
Lucien Bonaparte
Marc Bloch
Mysterium Coniunctionis
Nantes
Napoleon
Nobility
Notary
Parlement
Politics
Popular sovereignty
Printing
Proclamation
Religion
Return to normalcy
Robert Nozick
Romanticism
Salary
Seigneur
Sinking fund
Social history
Subtle body
Tax
The Other Hand
The Social Contract
The Spirit of the Laws
Treaty of Amiens
Victor Cousin
War of the Second Coalition
Wealth
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- ISBN 9780691007892
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Oct 1981
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Presented here is an English translation of a study that was part of a distinguished French series on the country's post-Revolution history. Unlike much Napoleonic literature that features the personality and foreign policy of the Emperor, it describes the condition of France and the French people during the fifteen years immediately following their great revolution. The translator, R. R. Palmer, is a distinguished historian who has written and translated many books in French history, including The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre (Princeton). Applying the methods of the new social history (Annales school), the author covers the political, administrative, social, economic, and cultural facets of the First Empire. Part I deals with the domestic program and institutions under Napoleon and the fervor of the new chief of state as he sought to establish a coherent, efficient, and thoroughly controlled regime. Part II examines the opposition to his system and the reasons behind the imperfect realization of his ideal. It discusses population and demographic trends, social structure, and economic activity--all of which eluded Napoleon's grasp.
Louis Bergeron (1929–2014) was director of studies at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris and the author of many books. R. R. Palmer (1909–2002) was a distinguished historian who wrote and translated many books on French history, including Georges Lefebvre's The Coming of the French Revolution (Princeton).
