Table of Contents
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Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Cro-Magnon Man, Roman Gaul and the Feudal Kingdom 6
Chapter 2 A Nation Born in Blood 26
Chapter 3 Renaissance, Reformation and the Wars of Religion 46
Chapter 4 The Grand Century of the Sun King 65
Chapter 5 The Enlightenment and the Fall of the Monarchy 84
Chapter 6 From the Revolution to Napoleon 104
Chapter 7 Revolutionary Aftershocks and Another Napoleon 126
Chapter 8 The Third Republic: Semaine Sanglante to the First World War 145
Chapter 9 1919-1940: Defeat Out of Victory 164
Chapter 10 The Second World War: Collaboration and Resistance 184
Chapter 11 The Fourth Republic in Cold War and Colonial Crisis 203
Chapter 12 De Gaulle's Golden Decade Ends in Tragi-Comedy 223
Chapter 13 Mutations of the 'Republican Monarchy': Pompidou to Chirac 244
Chapter 14 The 'French Exception': Reality or Illusion? 264
Chapter 15 France in the New Global Order 284
Notes and References 310
Select Bibliography 318
Index 325
