Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of genealogies -- List of maps -- France under the early Capetians: 987 1180 -- The apogee of medieval France: the thirteenth century, 1180 1314 -- The misfortunes of the fourteenth century -- The fifteenth century: a kingdom reborn from the ashes -- The 'beautiful' sixteenth century: 1494 1552 -- Difficult times: 1560 1610 -- From Good King Henry to the Sun King: 1598 1661 -- The pleasant seasons of a great reign: 1661 1688 -- Autumn of the great century: 1689 1715 -- The age of Louis XV: 1715 1774 -- Louis XVI: 1774 1792 -- The Revolution during peacetime: 1789 1792 -- Revolution and war: 1792 1799 -- France against Europe: the Napoleonic era, 1800 1815 -- France in the nineteenth century: a panorama -- France under Napoleon III: 1851 1870 -- From debacle to revenge: 1870 1914 -- From the Great War to the near present (1914 1987) -- Bibliography -- Index.