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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Crisis of the Monarchy | |
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| The Renaissance Monarchy | |
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| Social and intellectual changes | |
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| The spread of Protestantism | |
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| The Wars of Religion: the first conflicts, 1560-1563 | |
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| The second war and the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day | |
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| Henri III and the Catholic League | |
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| Henri IV and the victory of the politiques | |
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| Economy and Society | |
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| Population and subsistence crises | |
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| Landholding, prices, and agrarian depression | |
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| Money, wages, and living standards | |
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| The local community, the landlords, and the state | |
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| Industry, towns, and urban elites | |
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| Social divisions: orders and classes | |
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| The nobility in society | |
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| Royal fiscality and its consequences | |
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| Attempts at economic management | |
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| The Government of France, 1598-1715 | |
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| Henri IV to Richelieu, 1598-1624 | |
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| Religion and foreign policy under Henri IV | |
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| The restoration of royal authority | |
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| The Regency and the ascendancy of Marie de Medici | |
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| Luynes, the German conflict, and the Protestants | |
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| The Ministry of Richelieu | |
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| The early years, 1624-1630 | |
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| Opposition and the 'Day of Dupes' | |
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| The road to war, 1630-1642 | |
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| Noble conspiracy and rebellion | |
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| Resistance to war finance; the popular revolts | |
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| The administrative revolution; the intendants | |
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| The Regency, the Fronde, and the Ministry of Cardinal Mazarin | |
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| Foreign success and internal problems 1643-1648 | |
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| The crisis of 1648 | |
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| Slide into anarchy; the Fronde of the nobles | |
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| Mazarin and the last years of war | |
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| The Personal Rule of Louis XIV | |
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| The confirmation of royal power | |
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| The pursuit of glory; Louis XIV and his neighbours | |
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| The costs of war; finance and government | |
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| The growth of religious and political opposition | |
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| Belief and Culture | |
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| The structure of the church | |
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| The formative decades of the Catholic reform | |
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| The training of the secular clergy | |
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| The priests and the people | |
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| The Jansenist quarrel | |
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| Scepticism and censorship | |
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| Patterns of popular literacy, crime, and marriage | |
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| Witchcraft | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix: graphs | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |