This ongoing series sets out the historical, national, and religious characteristics of various European groups - the Germans, French, Italians, Spanish, Dutch, and British - as they impact the integration of other respective groups into the European Union. With respect to the French, their key characteristic is a tendency to riot, which emerged from the trauma associated with the Hundred Years' War and the Black Death, in which France lost about 70 percent of its population. The French Revolution was also such an uprising. ...
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This ongoing series sets out the historical, national, and religious characteristics of various European groups - the Germans, French, Italians, Spanish, Dutch, and British - as they impact the integration of other respective groups into the European Union. With respect to the French, their key characteristic is a tendency to riot, which emerged from the trauma associated with the Hundred Years' War and the Black Death, in which France lost about 70 percent of its population. The French Revolution was also such an uprising. Later, the French built myths about the ideals which supposedly drove them in the Revolution, although, in fact, the main driving force was a struggle over prestige and power. The French used these myths to lead Europe conceptually (and strategically, for a brief historical moment under Napoleon Bonaparte). In 1871, a democratic system of government was instituted in France, but it was not due to a desire for such a system on the part of the masses. Rather, it was i
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Add this copy of The French: Myths of Revolution to cart. $30.00, very good condition, Sold by Book Dispensary rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Niagara Falls, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Sussex Academic Press.
