Used. Tight copy, 282pp including maps. Cobban"s work, remains a seminal history of France in the 18th century. In doing so, he explores all the major political, social, economic and cultural developments of the period. Specifically he goes into some detail about the revolutionary decade that saw the fall of the monarchy and the cration of the Jacobin regime. Events that had a profound impact not just on French society, but also on Europe and the wider world.