The great nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715-99 /
France from Louis XV to Napoleon 1715-99
Colin Jones.
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.
- xxvi, 650 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 613-614) and index.
France in 1715: The King's Leg and the Choreography of Power -- The Mythic Present of the Sun King -- The Bourbon Polity -- The King's Nobility -- Absolutism under Pressure -- The Dreaded Regency -- Negotiating Stormy Weather: The Regency and the Advent of Fleury (1715-26) -- Hope beyond Sunset -- The Polysynody Experiment -- Princes, Dukes and Magistrates: A New Fronde? -- The Financial and Economic Context of the Regency -- A Scottish Wizard in a Land of Troubles -- The Childhood of Louis XV: Six Funerals and a Wedding -- Fleury's France (1726-43) -- Hercules on a Tightrope -- Tridentine Themes ... -- ... and Jansenist Variations -- The King's Information: News, Views, Secrets, Lies -- The Wilting Cardinal -- Unsuspected Golden Years (1743-56) -- Herod 'the Well-Beloved'? -- The Balance of Power and the Globalization of Warfare -- Flexing the Sinews of War -- 1. a. b. c. d. e. 2. a. b. c. d. e. f. 3. a. b. c. d. e. 4. a. b. c. Vital Signs in Rural France -- Health and Wealth by Stealth -- An Enlightening Age -- The Moment of the Encyclopedie -- Points of Light -- Civilised Man, Natural Woman -- Re-enchanting a Disenchanted World -- The Contested Politics of the Public Sphere -- Forestalling Deluge (1756-70) -- Damiens's Epiphany -- Things Fall Apart: The Seven Years War -- Choiseulian Scapegoats: Devots and Jesuits -- The Monarchy Retools -- Languages of Patriotism: The Judges Judged -- From the Brittany Affair to the Maupeou Revolution -- The Triumvirate and Its Aftermath (1771-84) -- Maupeou's Revolution -- The Turgot Experiment -- Patriotism al'Americaine -- The Price of Patriotism -- Figaro's Masters -- Bourbon Monarchy on the Rack (1784-8) -- Diamonds: Not a Queen's Best Friend -- The Appearance of Luxury and the Luxury of Appearances -- d. e. 5. a. b. c. d. e. 6. a. b. c. d. e. f. 7. a. b. c. d. e. 8. a. b. Silent Revolution in an Age of Noise -- The Elusive Public: Financial and Institutional Reform -- Revolution in Political Culture (1789-91) -- Imagining the Nation, Fearing the Worst -- Summer Lightning -- The Task of Political Architecture -- Demolition Problems -- War and Terror (1791-5) -- Aux Armes, Citoyens! -- Louis Capet Bows Out, Terror Bows In -- The Glacial Logic of Republican Unity -- Killing Robespierre, Ending Terror -- The Unsteady Republic (1795-9) -- Shaky Foundations -- Revolution: A User's Guide -- Economic Fortunes and Misfortunes -- Bourgeois Revolutionaries ... -- ... and their Other(s) -- Conclusion: The Brumaire Leviathan and la Grande Nation. c. d. 9. a. b. c. d. 10. a. b. c. d. 11. a. b. c. d. e.