Les Origines de la France contemporaine est l'oeuvre majeure d'Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893). Il l'entreprit au lendemain de la guerre de 1870 et la poursuivit jusqu' sa mort. L'oeuvre couvre quatre r gimes politiques: Restauration, monarchie de Juillet, IIe R publique, second...
Volume number two of Taine's Origins of Contemporary France deals with the first stages of the French Revolution, from its immediate prelude, the winter of 1788, until the rise of 'the Mountain'. Taine details the dire economic and administrative conditions that led to the...