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The Ancient Regime

English translation · Translated by John Durand

by Hippolyte Taine

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Before the Revolution, French society rested on privilege, and Hippolyte Taine opens his Origins of Contemporary France by asking how that system arose and what the clergy, nobles and king gave in return. The second book turns to Versailles and the pleasure-seeking drawing-room life of the court. The third and fourth trace how scientific ideas, the classic spirit and Rousseau's social theory grew into a doctrine and spread through French society. This is the first volume of the series, first published in French in 1875.

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