The Court of France 1789–1830
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- Author: Philip Mansel
- Date Published: October 1991
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521423984
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This attractively illustrated volume describes the succession of courts and monarchies in France from the revolutionary period to the fall of Charles X. It shows decisively that the revolution resulted in a stronger monarchy and a larger and more elitist series of courts than had previously existed. The book is based on many years of research in public and private archives throughout Europe. New light is thrown on the nature of the French Revolution and on the character and policies of Louis XVI, Napoleon I, Louis XVIII, and Charles X, who led their courts through periods of unprecedented formality and splendor.
Read more- An attractively-written and well-illustrated short, general study of the French monarchy in the years following the revolution
- The first book to prove that the French court was even more formal and lavish after the French Revolution than before it
- Philip Mansel is a well-known 'general' author of books on French history and on courts and high society in the middle east (his last book was Sultans in Splendour)
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"A shrewd observor of etiquette, a scholar thoroughly conversant with the subtleties of French Court life, Mansel gives us an invaluable source of information on an almost perennial trait of French official life." The Eighteenth Century
See more reviews"Basing his work upon some 15 years of archival research, Mansel has written what should be the definitive work in English on the French court. Beginning with the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette just prior to the French Revolution of 1789, he follows with much care the role, function, and position of the enormous number of courtiers through the regimes of Napoleon I, Louis XVIII, Charles X, and (briefly) that of the July Monarchy." Choice
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- Date Published: October 1991
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521423984
- length: 264 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.408kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of plates and figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Revolutions
2. Crossing the desert
3. Napoleon
4 Power
5. The year of two courts
6. Reform
7. The promised land
8. Kings and courtiers
9. Money
Epilogue
The Citizen King
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index.
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