The course of French history

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of genealogies; List of maps; France under the early Capetians: 987 1180; The apogee of medieval France: the thirteenth century, 1180 1314; The misfortunes of the fourteenth century; The fifteenth century: a kingdom reborn from the ashes; The 'beautiful' sixteenth century: 1494 1552; Difficult times: 1560 1610; From Good King Henry to the Sun King: 1598 1661; The pleasant seasons of a great reign: 1661 1688; Autumn of the great century: 1689 1715; The age of Louis XV: 1715 1774; Louis XVI: 1774 1792; The Revolution during peacetime: 1789 1792.