French Revolution from Its Origins to 1793 (From Its Origins to 1793)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: November 1962
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780231023429
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Revolutions & coups; c 1700 to c 1800; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Europe - France
First sentence: THE EUROPEAN SPIRIT of conquest, so marked in all spheres from the twelfth century onward, dominant in the sixteenth, was then checked by religious and royal reaction.