Summary
This book reflects on the last years of Louis XV, from the death of Marie Leczinska to the king’s own death, as a period of tension between the old regime and the emerging new order. It moves between Versailles and Paris, evoking court life, salons, theaters, philosophers, and political disputes, while contrasting those who fear social collapse with those who trust in progress and reform. The narrator presents himself as mentally inhabiting the eighteenth-century world in order to study its habits, ideas, and anxieties closely.
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