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The Ancien Regime: A History of France 1610 - 1774

ISBN: 978-0-631-21196-9

January 1999

Wiley-Blackwell

596 pages

Description
This is a story of brilliance, order and sophistication, of supreme confidence and great achievement - that begins in uncertainty and ends in iconoclasm.
About the Author

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie is the author of numerous books - including the immensely successful Montaillouand Carnival - and many articles. He is a researcher with a high international reputation, and the diversity of his work and range of his publications have made him one of the foremost specialists on France's monarchical period.

Features
* The greatest age of France told by France's greatest living historian.
* The definitive narrative account of Louis XIII's and XIV's extraordinary reigns.
* The final volume to appear in Blackwell's acclaimed History of France.
* Brilliant and readable translation.