Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes write by Orville T. Murphy. This book was released on 1983-06-30. Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first complete study of Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, one of the most distinguished diplomats and statesmen of eighteenth-century France. Vergennes represented France as a diplomat in Germany, Constantinople, and Stockholm, and was Louis XVI's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Orville Murphy traces Vergennes' career as he steadily rose from the provincial nobility of the robe to the ranks of the court aristocracy; from the post of an obscure diplomat to the lofty position of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Murphy, however, has written much more than an interesting biography. The book develops a link between diplomatic personalities, the foreign policies of the French kings Louis XV and Louis XVI, and the contemporary social, economic, and political problems during much of the eighteenth century. Indeed, Vergennes and his policies are central to any study of the American Revolution, the underlying causes of the French Revolution, and of the subsequent "Age of Revolutions" in Europe.
Preserving the Monarchy
Preserving the Monarchy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Preserving the Monarchy write by Munro Price. This book was released on 2004-01-29. Preserving the Monarchy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The comte de Vergennes is best known as one of the great foreign ministers of modern French history, but for much of the 1780s he was also first minister in all but name. This 1995 book was the first to deal in depth with the critical part he played in French domestic policies on the eve of the Revolution. It studies Vergennes' role in the context of the debate on the nature and future of the French monarchy in the two decades before the Revolution. His financial reforms, fully examined here, were the last attempt to restructure the monarchy in accordance with its traditional principles. The failure of this undertaking accelerated the final collapse of the royal government. Preserving the Monarchy is based on archival research, as well as reinterpretations of the established sources. The result is a significant study, not merely of Vergennes but of the end of the ancien régime.
Louis XVI: The Silent King and the Estates
Louis XVI: The Silent King and the Estates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Louis XVI: The Silent King and the Estates write by John Hardman. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Louis XVI: The Silent King and the Estates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Study of the reign of Louis XVI
A History of the French Revolution
A History of the French Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the French Revolution write by Henry Morse Stephens. This book was released on 1886. A History of the French Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Comte de Vergennes and the Baron de Breteuil
The Comte de Vergennes and the Baron de Breteuil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Comte de Vergennes and the Baron de Breteuil write by Munro Price. This book was released on 1989. The Comte de Vergennes and the Baron de Breteuil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
