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The Ancien Régime
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A collection of lectures by Charles Kingsley examining the social and political order of France before the Revolution, considering the aristocracy and the causes of that system's collapse. Suited to readers interested in French history and nineteenth-century historical thought.
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley was an English clergyman, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. A broad church priest of the Church of England, he is particularly associated with Christian socialism, Anti-Catholicism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms. He is known for his novels Yeast (1848), Alton Locke (1850), Hypatia (1853), Westward Ho! (1855), The Water-Babies (1863), and Hereward the Wake (1866).
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