Article: The French Royal State: 1460-1610, History of France, vol. 2. (book reviews)

English-language general histories of France have, for the Early Modern period at least. been remarkable for their scarcity in recent decades. The most comprehensive treatment of sixteenth-century France, that of J.H.M. Salmon, dates from 1975, while the seventeenth century can boast of nothing comparable since the war. This makes Blackwells' decision to translate the recent Hachette History of France as a series all the more unusual and welcome. In its original format, the series represented the ultimate stage in the progressive reconciliation of the Annales school with political history -- and what better opportunity to fly the new flag than a sumptuously-illustrated ...

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