1914. Contents: The People and the Old Regime; Government in the Eighteenth Century; Currents of Public Opinion; The Work of the Benevolent Despots; The French Monarchy as a Benevolent Despotism; The Industrial Revolution; The Fall of the Old Regime in France; Revolutionary Reorganization; The Finances and the Church; The Menace of Civil War; The Revolution and Europe; The War and the Monarchy; The Reign of Force; The Attempt to Organize the Republic; Imperialism and Bankruptcy; The French Republic as a Great Power; A Beneficient Dictatorship; Beginnings of Revolution in Germany; From Consulate to Empire; The New Charlemagne; The Continental System; The Reorganization of Prussia; The Scope of Reform in Europe; The French Empire at Its Height; The Last Great Venture; The Collapse of the Napoleonic Empire; and The Restoration in France and in Europe.