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Routledge Revivals France First published in 1957, France is a collection of essays which was originally delivered as lectures in the University of Oxford. While there is an intense interest in French history, it is still true to say that no satisfactory short history of France is available to the English reader. A single writer, or, indeed, a group of two or three writers could not hope to master the state of studies over the whole range of French history; this could only be done by a team of experts, and such a team of experts could only be found in one of our major universities. The volume which is here presented consists of twelve essays by recognized experts in particular fields, each essay being complete in itself, while together they cover the interaction of government and society over the whole range of French history from the earliest times to the 1950s. This book will be of interest to students of politics, government, history, sociology, and policy. France Government and Society Edited by J. M. Wallace-Hadrill and J. McManners Firstpublishedin1957 ByMethuen&Co.Ltd Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2022byRoutledge 4ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN andbyRoutledge 605ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1957J.M.Wallace-HadrillandJ.McManners Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilisedin any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbutpoints outthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and welcomes correspondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletocontact. ALibraryofCongressrecordexistsunderLCCN:57003920 ISBN:978-1-032-35787-4(hbk) ISBN:978-1-003-32866-7(ebk) ISBN:978-1-032-35796-6(pbk) BookDOI10.4324/9781003328667 FRANCE: GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY Edited by J. M. Wallace-Hadrill and John McManners METHUEN & CO LTD 36 ESSEX STREET • LONDON WC2 First published in 1957 LI CATALOGUE NO. 5956/U PRINTED AND BOUND IN GREAT BRITAIN BY JARROLD AND SONS LTD NORWICH Contents Introduction page vii Prehistory and the Gaulish Peoples 1 c. F. c. HAWKES, Professor of European Archaeology and Fellow of Keble College Roman Gaul 19 C. E. STEVENS, Fellow of Magdalen College Frankish Gaul 36 J. M. WALLACE-HADRILL, Professor of Medieval History, University of Manchester, late Fellow of Merton College Capetian France 61 BERYL SMALLEY, Fellow of St Hilda's College France of the Hundred Years War and the Renaissance 83 c. A. J. ARMSTRONG, Fellow of Hertford College The Making of Absolute Monarchy (1559-1683) 105 MENNA PRESTWICH, Fellow of St Hilda's College The Decline of Absolute Monarchy (1683-1774) 134 J. s. BROMLEY, Fellow of Keble College The Revolution and its Antecedents (1774-1794) 161 JOHN MCMANNERS, Professor of History, University of Tasmania, late Fellow of St Edmund Hall Napoleonic France 188 F. M. H. MARKHAM, Fellow of Hertford College From Restoration to Republic 207 A. F. THOMPSON, Fellow of Wadbam College V FRANCE: GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY From Dreyfus to Vichy page 226 p. M. WILLIAMS, Fellow of Jesus College The Fourth Republic (1945–1955) 247 MAX BELOFF, Fellow of Nuffield College Maps 1 Gaul in the Fifth Century page 3 5 Reproduced from the Cambridge Medieval History Volume of Maps, by courtesy of the Syndics of the University Press, Cambridge 2 France at the end of the Ancien Régime 184-5 By courtesy Mary Potter 3 Right and Left in the Republics 248-9 By courtesy P. M, Williams vi
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