The French Revolution and Napoleonic EraThis classic work on the French Revolution and Napoleonic era has been thoroughly updated to reflect the most recent scholarship on a magnificently complex epoch. Appropriate for upper-level French Revolution and Napoleonic era courses, this text's primary purpose is to give students the generally accepted "story" of the era and to furnish them with the basic knowledge to put in context the more sophisticated works listed in the bibliography. |
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Third Estate carries the other two estates | 3 |
1 Europe in 1789 | 7 |
2 Provinces of France Under the Old Regime | 27 |
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