William Stearns Davis - A History Of France From The Earliest Times To The Treaty Of Versailles
by William Stearns Davis /
2017 / English / PDF
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France thus lies most decidedly in the cross-roads of world events. It is better to study her annals than those of any other one country in Europe, if the reader would get a general view of universal history. France has been a participant in, or interested spectator of, nearly every great war or diplomatic contest for over a thousand years and a very great proportion of all the religious, intellectual, social, and economic movements which have affected the world either began in France or were speedily caught up and acted upon by Frenchmen soon after they had commenced their working elsewhere.
Contents: The Land of the Gauls and the French The Roman Province and the Frankish Kingdom From Franks to Frenchmen The Golden Age of Feudalism: 996-1270 Life in the Feudal Ages The Dawn of the Modern Era: 1270-1483. The Hundred Years' War The Turbulent Sixteenth Century: 1483-1610 The Great Cardinal and His Successor Louis XIV, the Sun KingHis Work in France Louis XIV Dominator of Europe The Wane of the Old Monarchy France the Homeland of New Ideas Old France on the Eve of the Revolution The Fiery Coming of the New Rgime: 1789-92 The Years of Blood and Wrath: 1792-95 Napoleon Bonaparte, as Master of Europe The Napoleonic Rgime in France. The Consulate and the Empire "Glory and Madness"Moscow, Leipzig, and Waterloo The Restored Bourbons and their Exit The "Citizen-King" and the Rule of the Bourgeois Radical Outbreaks and the Reaction to Csarism. The Second Republic: 1848-51 Napoleon the Little: His Prosperity and Decadence The Crucifixion by Prussia: 1870-71 The Painful Birth of the Third Republic The Years of Peace: 1879-1914 France Herself Again
