Preserving the Monarchy: The Comte de Vergennes 1774-1787

by Munro Price

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521465664
• ISBN13: 9780521465663
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"