Ancien Regime
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy / Greengrass, Mark / Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, PUBLISHER: Wiley-Blackwell, This story of brilliance, order and sophistication, supreme confidence, and great achievement begins in uncertainty and ends in iconoclasm. A great historian, in a balanced and vivid narrative, retells it here. This volume examines this rich and decadent period of French history, from the absolutism of Richelieu to the gluttonous rule of Louis XVI.