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Was it inevitable that France should become a republic? In this fascinating account of the period 1814-48, Munro Price attempts to answer this most difficult of questions. Using substantial unpublished research as he did in his celebrated "The Fall of the French Monarchy", Price focuses on the amazing political machinations of Madame Adelaide, sister of King Louis Philippe. Though only mentioned rarely in other histories of the time, "The French Revolutions" shows how her intelligence and behind the scenes wrangling secured her brother the throne, thereb...