An account of the relationship between Louis XV, the clergy of France, and the Parlement of Paris in the mid-eighteenth century.

New light is shed on the part played by Louis XV himself in exacerbating the disputes or in resolving the crisis by means of the "Law of Silence" of 1754.

There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to hi

A brilliant account of the coming of the French Revolution, and the culminating work of this most distinguished historian. When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bas

Using eighteenth-century France as a case study, David Bell offers an important new argument about the origins of nationalism. Before the eighteenth century, th