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Tables of Contents for France
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: French Histories
1
10
Gaul: From Caves to Villas
11
24
Prehistory
11
2
Early Gaul
13
2
Gauls and Greeks
15
4
Roman Gaul
19
16
A Country under Construction
21
6
Everyday Life in Gaul
27
2
Gallic Religion and Rites
29
3
The End of Roman Gaul
32
3
The Middle Ages through the Thirteenth Century
35
38
Overview: From Legends to Reality (and Back)
35
5
The Early Middle Ages (500-1000 A.D.)
40
8
Charlemagne
44
4
Life Under the Feudal System (900-1300)
48
20
Peasants: Slaves and Serfs
50
1
Urban Development
51
3
Transportation
54
2
The Church: Monasticism
56
6
Twelfth-Century Royalty: The Life of Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204)
62
6
The Last of the Capetians (1179-1223)
68
5
From War to Rebirth: The Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries
73
30
Hard Times: The Fourteenth Century
73
7
New Perceptions: The Fifteenth Century
80
8
Joan of Arc: Personal Piety
83
2
Humanism: Secular Piety
85
3
Tolerance and Cruelty: The Schizophrenic Sixteenth Century
88
15
French Renaissance Kings
90
8
``Of Moderation'': Michel de Montaigne (1534-1592) as a Case Study
98
5
Classicism and Enlightenment: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
103
38
Overview: The Triumph and Defeat of Absolutism
103
3
The Seventeenth Century
106
15
Louis XIII and Richelieu
106
3
Louis XIV and the ``Fronde''
109
2
Great Men and Great Projects under Louis XIV
111
5
Domestic and International Relations
116
1
French Literature in the Seventeenth Century
117
4
The Eighteenth Century
121
16
The Enlightenment
121
2
Voltaire (1694-1778)
123
5
Louis XV and Louis XVI
128
2
The French Revolution
130
7
The Napoleonic Wars (1795-1815)
137
4
Change, Change, and More Change: The Nineteenth Century
141
24
Romanticism
141
1
The Nineteenth Century as Lived by Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
142
4
From Romanticism to Realism
146
1
The Industrial Revolution
147
3
Social Unrest: From Monarchy to Republic to Empire
150
2
The Commune and the Dreyfus Affair
152
6
``Peasants into Frenchmen''
158
7
Roads and Railroads
159
2
Teaching French to the French
161
4
War and Peace: The Twentieth Century
165
38
Overview
165
7
The Vicious Cycle: Three Wars and Their Effects
172
10
From 1870 to the First World War
172
6
World War II and the Occupation
178
4
French Literature
182
2
The End of French Colonialism
184
2
The Events of May 1968
186
2
Two French Statesmen
188
10
Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
188
5
Francois Mitterand (1916-1996)
193
5
Immigration and Social Tension
198
3
Education
201
2
Epilogue
203