HIS 210 Revolutionary France 1789-1880

This course is a study of France's revolutionary century from 1789 to the establishment of the Third Republic in 1880 following the Second Empire's crushing defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. Over this revolutionary century, France led the way in overturning the old regime and its established order of rank privilege and inaugurating political modernity: a modern legal, social, and political order based in the concept of popular sovereignty as the source of all government. The revolutionary quest and promise would be emulated across Europe and the world. (C9)

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