The Partition of Europe a Textbook of European History 1715 1815
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The causes of this collapse were not confined to the greater strength of the English and Prussian efforts, but they lay to a considerable extent in the condition and government of France itself. The king, whose government succeeded that of the Regency, was in every way unequal to the strain imposed upon the monarchby the centralized systemof Louis XIV; he was an admirable dancer. As a child he had known neither his father nor his mother. Servants became his habitual companions, and although his... education was conducted by a bishop and a duke, he mastered little beyond the science of etiquette. A distinguished appear- ance procured his popularity, but the crowds that acclaimed Louis le Bien-aime were unfamiliar with his bitter tongue and his furtive temper. The breakdown of French policy was due to a series of clear causes. It attempted upon a facile miscon- struction of the tradition of Richelieu to effect an impos- sible blend of European and colonial ambitions. It CH. V THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION q3 failed to follow in the conduct of European affairs such a consistent tradition of aims and methods as that which unified the developments of Russian policy.
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