ABSTRACT
Before the Terror and then the Napoleonic Wars made it impracticable to travel through France, many young British men and women were able to watch at first hand the changes taking place in French society an the agitations that were becoming increasingly loud for reform. This book, originally published in 1987, is a study of France in these crucial years seen through the eyes of the travellers. It marries the travellers’ accounts to analysis of the political state of France to produce a book equally illuminating of British taste and attitudies to France, and of the French political and social scene.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |28 pages
Introduction
part |200 pages
Economic and Social Conditions
chapter |41 pages
The Land and the Peasants
chapter |74 pages
The Towns, Trade and Industry
chapter |42 pages
The Privileged Orders
chapter |23 pages
Justice
chapter |18 pages
Popular Amusements
part |75 pages
The Collapse of Absolute Monarchy