The Ancien Régime by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
A History of France, 1610–1774
A concise synthesis of France from 1610 to 1774, this work interweaves political narrative with social, economic, and demographic analysis to show how absolutist monarchy, war finance, administrative centralization, and court culture interacted with climate fluctuations, agriculture, and regional diversity. It explores taxation, religious conflict, markets, and population trends across the seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century, emphasizing the longue durée structures that underpinned everyday life. By tracing shifts under the reigns of Louis XIII, Louis XIV, and Louis XV, it explains both the resilience and strains of the Old Regime and how these dynamics set the stage for the crises to come.
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