Outlines of the History of France: From the Earliest Times to the Outbreak of the Revolution. An Abridgment of M. Guizot's Popular History of France. With Chronological Index, Historical and Genealogical Tables, Portraits, etc.

xvii, 613 pp. Includes black-and-white frontispiece of Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot, plates and illustrations. Grey boards with gilt title on spine, gilt decor of Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot on front board. A history of France from the time of the Gauls and Romans to Louis XVI (1789). François Guizot, in full François-Pierre-Guillaume Guizot, (born October 4, 1787, Nîmes, France—died October 12, 1874, Val-Richer), French political figure and historian who, as leader of the conservative constitutional monarchists during the July Monarchy (1830–48), was the dominant minister in France. Guizot’s father was executed by the National Convention in 1794, and Guizot went into exile with his mother. In 1805, after six years in Geneva, Guizot returned to Paris, where he studied law and frequented anti-Napoleonic literary circles. In 1812 he was appointed professor of history at the University of Paris. - Britannica