Introduction

I. Times, Spaces, Powers

1. Knowing France

2. Mastery of Space

3. Time and History

4. Peasant France and Merchant France

5. The Kingdom of Exchange: The Culture of Privilege and the Culture of Commerce

6. The City, Crucible of Change

7. The Regulated Kingdom: Paris and the Provinces

II. Powers and Conflicts

8. The King and His Subjects

9. The King and the People

10. The End of Rebellion

11. God, the King, and the Churches

12. Elites and Nobilities

13. Public Space

14. Crises in State and Society

III. Enlightenment and Society

15. Life Triumphant

16. The Liberties of Individuals

17. Consumption and Appearance

18. Desacralization, Secularization, Illuminism

19. Materializing the Intelligence, Abstracting Things

20. Paris, Capital of the Enlightenment

Notes

Index

Daniel Roche is Professor of Modern History at the Sorbonne (Paris I) and Directeur d'Études at l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

Arthur Goldhammer received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.

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