THE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE, VOLUME 1
THE ANCIENT REGIME
by Hippolyte A. Taine
Text Transcriber's Note: The numbering of Volumes, Books, Chapters and Sections are as in the French not the American edition. Annotations by the transcriber are initialled SR. Svend Rom, April 2000.
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CONTENTS
THE ANCIENT REGIME
INTRODUCTION
PREFACE:
PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR: ON POLITICAL IGNORANCE AND WISDOM.
BOOK FIRST. THE STRUCTURE OF THE ANCIENT SOCIETY.
CHAPTER I. THE ORIGIN OF PRIVILEGES.I. Services and Recompenses of the Clergy.CHAPTER II. THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES.
II. Services and Recompenses of the Nobles.
III. Services and Recompenses of the King.I. Number of the Privileged Classes.
II. Their Possessions, Capital, and Revenue.
III. Their Immunities.
IV. Their Feudal Rights.
V. They may be justified by local and general services.
CHAPTER III. LOCAL SERVICES DUE BY THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES.I. Examples in Germany and England.—These services are not rendered byCHAPTER IV. PUBLIC SERVICES DUE BY THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES.
II. Resident Seigniors.
III. Absentee Seigniors.I. England compared to France.BOOK SECOND. MORALS AND CHARACTERS.
II. The Clergy
III. Influence of the Nobles..
IV. Isolation of the Chiefs
V. The King's Incompetence and Generosity.
VI. Latent Disorganization in France.
CHAPTER I. MORAL PRINCIPLES UNDER THE ANCIENT REGIME.
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