EUROPEAN SOCIETY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Agriculture in the Eighteenth Century
Commerce and Industry in the Eighteenth Century
The Privileged Classes
Religious and Ecclesiastical Conditions in the Eighteenth Century
Scientific and Intellectual Developments in the Eighteenth Century
CHAPTER XIV. EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
The British Monarchy
The Enlightened Despots
The French Monarchy
CHAPTER XV. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Introductory
The End of Absolutism in France, 1789
The End of the Old Regime: the National Constituent Assembly,
1789-1791
The Limited Monarchy in Operation: the Legislative Assembly
(1791-1792) and the Outbreak of Foreign War
Establishment of the First French Republic: the National
Convention, 1792-1795
The Directory (1795-1799) and the Transformation of the Republic into
a Military Dictatorship
Significance of the French Revolution
CHAPTER XVI. THE ERA OF NAPOLEON
The French Republic under the Consulate, 1799-1804
The French Empire and its Territorial Expansion
Destruction of the French Empire
Significance of the Era of Napoleon
INTRODUCTION
The story of modern times is but a small fraction of the long epic of
human history.
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