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 TJie Eve of the French Revolution 395 Jobez, La France sous Louis XVI, 3 vols., 1885. An excellent gen- eral history of events of the reign. Histoire de France, edited by Lavisse. Vol. VIII, Part II (Louis XV) by Carre; and Vol. IX (Louis XVI, 1774-1789) by Carre. These vol- umes are announced. Also, by same writer, La France sous Louis XV, 1891. Rocquain, Z' Esprit revolutionnaire avant la revolution, 1878. Valu- able notes, and appendix containing list of books condemned during the eighteenth century. Aubertin, H Esprit publique au i8ieme siecle, 1872. Very suggestive. Babeau, A., Le Village sous Pancien regime, 1878; La Ville sous Vancien regime, 1880; La Province sous Pancien regime, 2 vols., 1894; La Vie rurale dans P ancienne France, 1883 ; Les Artisans et les Domes- tiques d'' autrefois, 1886; Les Bourgeois d* autrefois, 1886; Les Voyageurs en France depuis la renaissance jusqu'a. la revolution, 1885; etc. Careful studies of important phases of French life before the Revolution. Levasseur, Histoire des classes ouvrieres avant ij8q, Vol. II, and excellent chapter at opening of his Histoire des classes ouvrieres depuis 1789. St. Leon, Martin, Histoire des corporations des metiers, 1897. See also chapters in Vol. VII of the Histoire generate, Chapter XIII, "La France economique," by Levasseur; and Chapter XIV, "La Litte- rature francaise," by Faguet. Boiteau, HEtat de la France en 1789. Clamageran, Histoire de Pimpdt en France, 3 vols. While this closes with 1774, it supplies the key to the financial situation at the opening of Louis XVI's reign. Babeau's monographs Besides the invaluable cahiers (see below, p. 397), a few only of the Sources, sources (but all of them of first-rate importance) are mentioned here. Mercy-Argenteau, Correspondance secrete avec Pimperatrice Marie- Therese, avec les lettres de Marie- Therese et de Marie- Antoinette, 3 vols., 1875 » an< ^ Correspondance secrete avec Pempereur Joseph II et I e prince de Kaunitz, 2 vols., 1889-1891. An extraordinary collection of informa- tion, which the sagacious Comte de Mercy (see above, p. 366) trans- mitted to Vienna, from 1766 to 1790. Lettres de Marie Antoinette (publiees par Maxime de la Rocheterie et le Marquis de Beaucourt), 2 vols., 1895-1896. Grimm, Diderot, Raynal, etc., Correspondance litteraire, philoso- phique et critique, de Ij4j-iy8y, edited by Tourneux, 16 vols., 1877— 1882. Admits one to the intimacy of the chief men of letters of the time.