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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| France in 1715: The King's Leg and the Choreography of Power | |
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| The Mythic Present of the Sun King | |
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| The Bourbon Polity | |
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| The King's Nobility | |
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| Absolutism under Pressure | |
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| The Dreaded Regency | |
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| Negotiating Stormy Weather: The Regency and the Advent of Fleury (1715-26) | |
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| Hope beyond Sunset | |
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| The Polysynody Experiment | |
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| Princes, Dukes and Magistrates: A New Fronde? | |
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| The Financial and Economic Context of the Regency | |
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| A Scottish Wizard in a Land of Troubles | |
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| The Childhood of Louis XV: Six Funerals and a Wedding | |
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| Fleury's France (1726-43) | |
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| Hercules on a Tightrope | |
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| Tridentine Themes ... | |
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| ... and Jansenist Variations | |
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| The King's Information: News, Views, Secrets, Lies | |
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| The Wilting Cardinal | |
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| Unsuspected Golden Years (1743-56) | |
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| Herod 'the Well-Beloved'? | |
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| The Balance of Power and the Globalization of Warfare | |
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| Flexing the Sinews of War | |
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| Vital Signs in Rural France | |
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| Health and Wealth by Stealth | |
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| An Enlightening Age | |
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| The Moment of the Encyclopedie | |
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| Points of Light | |
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| Civilised Man, Natural Woman | |
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| Re-enchanting a Disenchanted World | |
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| The Contested Politics of the Public Sphere | |
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| Forestalling Deluge (1756-70) | |
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| Damiens's Epiphany | |
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| Things Fall Apart: The Seven Years War | |
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| Choiseulian Scapegoats: Devots and Jesuits | |
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| The Monarchy Retools | |
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| Languages of Patriotism: The Judges Judged | |
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| From the Brittany Affair to the Maupeou Revolution | |
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| The Triumvirate and Its Aftermath (1771-84) | |
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| Maupeou's Revolution | |
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| The Turgot Experiment | |
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| Patriotism al'Americaine | |
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| The Price of Patriotism | |
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| Figaro's Masters | |
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| Bourbon Monarchy on the Rack (1784-8) | |
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| Diamonds: Not a Queen's Best Friend | |
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| The Appearance of Luxury and the Luxury of Appearances | |
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| Silent Revolution in an Age of Noise | |
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| The Elusive Public: Financial and Institutional Reform | |
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| Revolution in Political Culture (1789-91) | |
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| Imagining the Nation, Fearing the Worst | |
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| Summer Lightning | |
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| The Task of Political Architecture | |
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| Demolition Problems | |
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| War and Terror (1791-5) | |
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| Aux Armes, Citoyens! | |
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| Louis Capet Bows Out, Terror Bows In | |
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| The Glacial Logic of Republican Unity | |
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| Killing Robespierre, Ending Terror | |
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| The Unsteady Republic (1795-9) | |
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| Shaky Foundations | |
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| Revolution: A User's Guide | |
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| Economic Fortunes and Misfortunes | |
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| Bourgeois Revolutionaries ... | |
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| ... and their Other(s) | |
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| Conclusion: The Brumaire Leviathan and la Grande Nation | |
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| Notes | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |