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A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France.

EARL J. HESS is Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at Lincoln Memorial University and the author of fifteen books on the Civil War, including Kennesaw Mount