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The Old Regime and the French Revolution

The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution — the so-called "Ancien Regime" — and investigates the causes and forces that brought about the Revolution. It is one of the major early historical works on the French Revolution.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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