The Modern Regime, Volume 1. Part of the series Origins of contemporary France. [v.5-6] libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

Why should we fetch Taine's work up from its dusty box in the basement of the national library? First of all because his realistic views of our human nature, of our civilization and of socialism as well as his dark premonitions of the 20th century were proven correct. Secondly because we may today with more accuracy call his work

This second part of “Les Origines de la France Contemporaine” will consist of two volumes. — Popular insurrections and the laws of the Constituent Assembly end in destroying all government in France; this forms the subject of the present volume. — A party arises around an extreme doctrine, grabs control of the government, and rules in conformity with its doctrine. This will form the subject of the second volume.