The old régime and the French Revolution /

Brilliantly and searchingly examines the nature of French society in the years before the Revolution. Why did the Revolution break out? Was it inevitable, and if so, why? How was France really changed by the Revolution? Why did the intellectuals become enemies of the old French state and society? Wh...

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Main Author: Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1955.
Edition:[First edition].
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Summary:Brilliantly and searchingly examines the nature of French society in the years before the Revolution. Why did the Revolution break out? Was it inevitable, and if so, why? How was France really changed by the Revolution? Why did the intellectuals become enemies of the old French state and society? Why was the French nobility so estranged from the French people? Why, in short, were Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette doomed to the guillotines of the Revolution? In this book, Tocqueville examined these and many other questions, and in large measure definitively answered them.

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Call Number: DC 138 .T565o En36 1955
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Call Number: DC 138 .T6313 1955
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