The French nation from Napoleon to Pétain, 1814-1940 /
by Denis W. Brogan.
- New York : Harper & Brothers, [1957].
- 328 p. ; 22 cm.
- 9(44) "1789- " (NLA) .
Includes index
Contents: The restoration -- The bourgeois monarchy -- The interim republic -- The Second Empire -- The first war -- Between two wars
Describes French Society as well as French politics during the period from the fall of Napoleon to the setting up of the Vichy government. In a century and a quarter France knew vicissitudes of victory and defeat, of glory and shame, endured invasion and revolution, and underwent a great economic and social transformation
Napoleon I Emperor of the French 1769-1821 --Influence