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This book examines the impact of French society on English culture in the second half of the eighteenth century. In an age when many historians suggest the inexorable rise of the middle classes was being driven forward by industrialization, the English aristocracy stood apart from the trend towards commercial respectability, and revelled in all that was best in cosmopolitan fashion and ideas. Welcoming the French Revolution as a re-enactment of 1688, they watched aghast as their world descended into the Terror, and the onslaught of Bonaparte.
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'Eagles's evidence is immaculately marshalled, and tells us a great deal about English Society during the reigns of Georges II and III...His book is scholarly social history at its best.' - The Independent
'...challenging...sparkling...Eagles has some fascinating material - about for example, French influences on English playwrights, or the experience of English travellers and expatriates in France.' - Noel Malcolm, Daily Telegraph
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About the author
ROBIN EAGLES is Senior Research Fellow at the History of Parliament, UK. He has been a contributor to L. Brockliss and D. Eastwood, (eds), A Union of Multiple Identities: the British Isles 1750-1850, and the New Dictionary of National Biography.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Francophilia in English Society, 1748-1815
Authors: Robin Eagles
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599109
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2000
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-76484-8Published: 22 June 2000
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59910-9Published: 22 June 2000
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 229
Topics: European History, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Social History