About the book: 1972 / Extensive work of domestic historians covers the history of France, from the times of Ancient Gaul to 70s of the 20th century. The book traces the historical development of the country, the role played by France in the international arena. “History of France” is published in three volumes; each volume corresponds to a specific historical period. The first volume covers the time from the early state formations in the territory of ancient Gaul to the crisis of the feudal-absolutist system, growing throughout the 18th century. This is more than a thousand-year history of the French people, the history of the emergence, growth and decline of feudalism. The second volume is devoted to the new history of France, that is, the time from the Great French bourgeois revolution of the end of the 18th century. until the Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917 and the end of the First World War. This is the era of the establishment of the bourgeois order in France, the formation and development of the French working class, sharp class battles, reaching their highest form - civil war and the first experience in history of the dictatorship of the proletariat in the days of the Paris Commune of 1871. The last - third - volume is entirely devoted to the modern history of France, the historical processes of the next fifty years - the history of the Third Republic between the two world wars, the difficult years of the Second World War and the turbulent events of the post-war years - France of the fourth and fifth republics, the role of France in the modern world.