[Gutenberg 54187] • The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789 / And the Causes Which Led to That Event
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- Authors
- Tocqueville, Alexis de
- Publisher
- J. Murray
- Tags
- politics , philosophy , france -- history -- revolution , history , classics , 1789-1799 -- causes
- ISBN
- 2940024827543
- Date
- 1856-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.40 MB
- Lang
- en
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.
See Wikipedia article at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Regime_and_the_Revolution)