Volume 11, Number 7 · October 24, 1968
The Bourgeois Take-Over
By J.H. Plumb
The Bourgeois, Catholicism vs Capitalism
by Bernard Groethuysen, translated by Mary Ilford, with an Introduction by Benjamin Nelson
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 268 pp., $5.95
Bayeux in the Late Eighteenth Century
by Olwen H. Hufton
Oxford, 328 pp., $10.10
Since it was published forty years ago, Bernard Groethuysen's book has enjoyed a modest subterranean reputation, greater perhaps in sociological than in historical circles. But it has always been a rare book, mentioned in the bibliographies of specialists in eighteenth-century French thought, but rarely read. It has now been excellently translated by Mary Ilford, and will be widely available. I expect that it will again be used mainly by sociologists and occasionally by historians of ideas, but by straight historians, quite rightly, hardly at all.
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