Instructor(s)
Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel
MIT Course Number
21H.346
As Taught In
Spring 2011
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Description
This course covers French politics, culture, and society from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte. Attention is given to the growth of the central state, the beginnings of a modern consumer society, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, including its origins, and the rise and fall of Napoleon.
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