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THE ANCIENT RéGIME IBD

HIPPOLYTE ADOLPHE TAINE / JOHN DURAND
HOUNSKULL PUBLISHING
01 / 2019
9781910893012
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Hippolyte TaineâÇÖs fame as a historian rests on his monumental six-volume work, The Origins of Contemporary France, an effort to understand the France of his day undertaken after her defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the horrors of the Paris Commune of 1871. The Ancient Régime is the first volume. Drawing from memoirs, diaries, correspondence, archival material, and the arts, he performs a systematic examination of pre-revolutionary France, beginning with the royalty and aristocracy, passing through the clergy, the middle class, and the peasantry, and ending with the army. In a highly entertaining and readable narrative endowed with outstanding literary qualities, Taine provides an abundance of facts, which richly illustrate, with pyrotechnics and breadth, the long suicide of the ancien régime-structural, cultural, moral, intellectual, and economic-showing how this cadaverous entity laid the foundations for the French Revolution. Taine was known for his stubborn intellectual independence and scepticism towards then fashionable ideas, and this is evident in the present survey, where he exempts no one from responsibility in the concussion that followed. Long neglected in the English-speaking world, his unique historical perspective is tough and incisive, at once picturesque and contemplative, and stands, along with BurkeâÇÖs and de MaistreâÇÖs, as an important articulation of the conservative view, contrasting sharply against contemporaneous histories by Michelet, Thiers, and Mignet and the later Marxist (or âÇÖclassicâÇÖ) interpretations given prominence during the first half of the 20th century.á

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