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Napoleon and the Hundred Days
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Stephen Coote
A dazzling new portrait of the legendary emperor whose genius, courage and tenacity won and lost him an Empire In Vienna, 1815, the political aristocrats of Europe gathered to determine the fate of the continent after the defeat of Napoleon. Yet as they assembled the news arrived that Napoleon had escaped captivity and was returning to France. ...
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Comte: Early Political Writings
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Auguste Comte, H S Jones (Editor), Raymond Geuss (Editor)
This translation of Comte's early writings on Positivism makes accessible the development of his ideas.
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Lafayette and the Liberal Ideal 1814-1824: Politics and Conspiracy in an Age of Reaction
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Sylvia Neely
Sylvia Neely provides both the first scholarly study of Lafayette's life after the French Revolution and a detailed analysis of French politics during the early Restoration. Lafayette, advocating a liberalism based on the American example, used both legal and illegal means to overturn a conservative government. The personification of liberalism ...
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Napoleon's Master: A Life of Prince Talleyrand
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David Lawday
He took on Napoleon with a set of weapons that seemed unsuited to the task: flattery, courtesy and an alarmingly straight face. And he won. Quite as much as the Duke of Wellington it was the club-footed genius of French diplomacy who defeated the greatest conqueror since Julius Caesar. This is the story of Prince Talleyrand, who attracts as much ...
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Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne: Volume 1: 1781-1815
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Anka Muhlstein (Editor), Olivier Bernier (Afterword by)
"We must rejoice at the publication of these memoirs. . . . Providing portraits and some unforgettable scenes with a keen sense of detail, Mme de Boigne's memoirs were greatly admired by Marcel Proust."-Victor Brombert
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The White Terror and the Political Reaction After Waterloo
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Daniel Philip Resnick
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The Perilous Crown: France Between Revolutions
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Munro Price
Was it inevitable that France should become a republic? In this fascinating account of the period 1814-48, Munro Price attempts to answer this most difficult of questions. Using substantial unpublished research as he did in his celebrated "The Fall of the French Monarchy", Price focuses on the amazing political machinations of Madame Adelaide, ...
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Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
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Benjamin Constant, Etienne Hofmann (Editor), Dennis O'Keefe (Translator)
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) was born in Switzerland and became one of France's leading writers, as well as a journalist, philosopher, and politician. His colourful life included a formative stay at the University of Edinburgh; service at the court of Brunswick, Germany; election to the French Tribunate; and initial opposition and subsequent ...
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Election 1827 France
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Sherman Kent
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Revolution and Counter-Revolution in France: 1815-1852
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William Fortesque
The first half of the 19th century in France was marked by political change and reaction. The book examines this dramatic period of revolution and counter-revolution, from the end of the Napoleonic rule and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815 to the proclamation of the Second Republic and the rise of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. The ...
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The Perilous Crown: France Between Revolutions, 1814-1848
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Munro Price
Beginning with the return from exile of Louis-Philippe d'Orleans in 1814, together with his sister, Madame Adelaide, Price examines the remarkable period that saw not one but two revolutions; the first, in 1830, put Louis-Philippe on the throne, the second in 1848 saw him exiled once more, destined to spend the last years of his life in quiet ...
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Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne: 1816-1830; Volume II
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Anka Muhlstein (Editor), Olivier Bernier (Afterword by)
"We must rejoice at the publication of these memoirs. . . . Providing portraits and some unforgettable scenes with a keen sense of detail, Mme de Boigne's memoirs were greatly admired by Marcel Proust."-Victor Brombert
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Re-Writing the French Revolutionary Tradition
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Robert Alexander
This book examines the politics of the French Revolutionary tradition during the Bourbon Restoration and early July Monarchy. Robert Alexander argues that political change was achieved by legal grassroots organization and persuasion - rather than by the revolutionary tradition of conspiracy and armed insurrection. Moreover, political struggle was ...
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Constitutional Monarchy in France, 1814-1848 (Seminar Studies in History)
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Pamela M Pilbeam
Historians in France assume that the restoration of Monarchy after the defeat of Napoleon was doomed. The first compact recent history of the period in English, this book reveals that although the French experimented with two Monarchies and a Republic (1814 - 48), there was substantial stability. The Institutional framework constructed during the ...
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Old Hatreds and Young Hopes: The French Carbonari Against the Bourbon Restoration
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Alan B Spitzer
After the defeat and exile of Napoleon and the restoration of the Bourbons, the political climate of France was one of seething unrest, intrigue, and dissent. A clandestine and conspiratorial movement known as the Carbonari, or "Charbonnerie," arose in the early 1820's with the aim of overthrowing the monarchy of Louis XVIII. Modeling itself after ...
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Re-Writing the French Revolutionary Tradition: Liberal Opposition and the Fall of the Bourbon Monarchy
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Robert Alexander
This book examines the politics of the French Revolutionary tradition during the Bourbon Restoration and early July Monarchy. Robert Alexander argues that political change was achieved by legal grassroots organization and persuasion - rather than by the revolutionary tradition of conspiracy and armed insurrection. Moreover, political struggle was ...
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The Restoration era in France 1814-1830.
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John Hall Stewart
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Restoration and Reaction 1815-1848
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Andre Jardin, Andre-Jean Tudesq
Providing a detailed introductory account of the course of French history during the period immediately following the great revolutionary upheaval, this work begins with the re-establishment of the Bourbon monarchy in France in 1815 and ends with the fall of the monarchy in 1848.
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Ultra-Royalism and the French Restoration,
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Government and Society in France, 1814-1848
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DIC Hist France M-Z
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Edgar Leon Newman
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Les Idees Politiques En France Sous La Restauration
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Dominique Bagge
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La Restauration, 1815-1830
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Guillaume de Bertier de Sauvigny
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L'Etat Et Les Artistes: de La Restauration a la Monarchie de Juillet (1815-1833)
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La vie élégante, ou, La formation du Tout-Paris, 1815-1848
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Anne Martin-Fugier
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