
THE ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY FRANCE, VOLUME 6 - THE MODERN REGIME, VOLUME 2
by Hippolyte A. Taine
PREFACE By André Chevrillon.
BOOK FIFTH. THE CHURCH.
CHAPTER I. MORAL INSTITUTIONS
I. Napoleon's Objectives.
II. Napoleon's opinions and methods.
III. Dealing with the Pope.
IV. The Pope, Napoleon's employee.
V. State domination of all religion.
Language
en
Duration
~8 hours (494K characters)
Release date
2008-06-22
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1828–1893
A sharp-eyed French critic and historian, he brought science, psychology, and social history into literary study in a way that changed how many readers thought about books and culture. Best known for his forceful ideas about how character and environment shape human behavior, he was one of the major intellectual figures of 19th-century France.
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