The Old Regime and the French Revolution by Stuart Gilbert, A.P. Kerr, J.P. Mayer, Alexis de Tocqueville

The Old Regime and the French Revolution

Stuart Gilbert, A.P. Kerr, J.P. Mayer, Alexis de Tocqueville

320 pages first pub 1856 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging informative slow-paced

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The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution — the so-called "Ancien Régime" — and investigates the causes and forces that brought about the Revolution. It is one of the major early historical works on the French Revolution.

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