Publisher's Synopsis
In this volume, both French and North American historians explore, in six original essays, the transformations undergone by France's cities between the end of the Middle Ages and the eve of the Revolution. Their findings cast a new light upon the broader social changes which the country experienced during the three centuries prior to 1789.;The introductory overview by the editor sets the context and outlines the contours of French urban development between 1500 and 1789.
