Secondary Sources: General Histories

Comprehensive Surveys

Duby, Georges. France in the Middle Ages 987-1460: From Hugh Capet to Joan of Arc. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.

Jones, Colin. The Cambridge Illustrated History of France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel. The Royal French State, 1460-1610. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.

Price, Roger. A Concise History of France. 3rd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

The Ancien Régime

Bluche, François. L'Ancien Régime: Institutions et société. Paris: Editions de Fallois, 1993.

Collins, James B. The State in Early Modern France. 2nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Goubert, Pierre. The Ancien Régime: French Society 1600-1750. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973.