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France 1715-1804 - Power and the People (Paperback, New)
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France 1715-1804 - Power and the People (Paperback, New)
Series: Social History of Europe
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Gwynne Lewis' history opens with a full analysis of all the
components of traditional France, including political and religious
structures, the seigneurial system, the bourgeoisie and the poor.
Part two examines the meaning and challenge of the Enlightenment,
with particular reference to women and the mass of the poor. Part
three concentrates upon the relationship between the shift to
laissez-faire economics, popular revolts and government repression,
providing the essential background to the Revolutionary decade of
the 1790s. The Revolution witnessed the rise of a politicised
'Popular Movement' that achieved, briefly, a measure of popular
democracy. War and counter-revolution blocked the move towards real
democracy, strengthened the authority of the centralised state, and
enhanced the credibility of bourgeois political and economic power.
One of the main contentions of this work is that the failure of
both monarchical and Revolutionary regimes to deal with the massive
social problem of poverty played a far larger part in explaining
the collapse of the Bourbons in 1789, and the failure of democracy
during the 1790s, than most historians have allowed. Likewise, the
importance of religion in directing the momentous events of this
period has also been under-estimated.
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