THE ANCIENT REGIME by Hippolyte A. Taine

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and Sections are as in the French not the American edition.
Annotations by the transcriber are initialled SR.

Svend Rom, April 2000.

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CONTENTS

THE ANCIENT REGIME
INTRODUCTION
PREFACE:
PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR: ON POLITICAL IGNORANCE AND WISDOM.
BOOK FIRST. THE STRUCTURE OF THE ANCIENT SOCIETY.
CHAPTER I. THE ORIGIN OF PRIVILEGES.
CHAPTER II. THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES.

CHAPTER III. LOCAL SERVICES DUE BY THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES.
CHAPTER IV. PUBLIC SERVICES DUE BY THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES.
BOOK SECOND. MORALS AND CHARACTERS.
CHAPTER I. MORAL PRINCIPLES UNDER THE ANCIENT REGIME.
CHAPTER II. DRAWING ROOM LIFE.
CHAPTER III. DISADVANTAGES OF THIS DRAWING ROOM LIFE.
BOOK THIRD. THE SPIRIT AND THE DOCTRINE.
CHAPTER I. SCIENTIFIC ACQUISITION.
CHAPTER II. THE CLASSIC SPIRIT, THE SECOND ELEMENT.
CHAPTER III. COMBINATION OF THE TWO ELEMENTS.
CHAPTER IV. ORGANIZING THE FUTURE SOCIETY.
BOOK FOURTH. THE PROPAGATION OF THE DOCTRINE.
CHAPTER I.—SUCCESS OF THIS PHILOSOPHY IN FRANCE.—FAILURE OF THE SAME
CHAPTER II. THE FRENCH PUBLIC.
CHAPTER III. THE MIDDLE CLASS.
BOOK FIFTH. THE PEOPLE
CHAPTER II. TAXATION THE PRINCIPAL CAUSE OF MISERY.
CHAPTER III. INTELLECTUAL STATE OF THE PEOPLE.
CHAPTER IV. THE ARMED FORCES.
CHAPTER V. SUMMARY.
END OF VOLUME


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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