Old Regime and the French Revolution
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Doubleday
Published: 1999
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780385092609
Subjects: France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, causes
Description: Brilliantly and searchingly examines the nature of French society in the years before the Revolution. Why did the Revolution break out? Was it inevitable, and if so, why? How was France really changed by the Revolution? Why did the intellectuals become enemies of the old French state and society? Why was the French nobility so estranged from the French people? Why, in short, were Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette doomed to the guillotines of the Revolution? In this book, Tocqueville examined these and many other questions, and in large measure definitively answered them.