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Small abrasions on the dustjacket, otherwise very good. - Einband leicht berieben, sonst sehr gut. - CONTENTS: Preface -- Introduction - Early Days -- Richelieu Creates a Navy -- Richelieu's Navy at War : The Foundations of Empire -- Lean Years and Collapse -- Colbert -- Dutch Wars and Barbary Pirates -- English Succession - Spanish Succession - Guerre de Course -- Starvation Years and the Austrian War -- The Seven Years War -- Reform : Recovery : Revenge -- Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Part I - The Republic -- Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Part II - The Empire -- The Last Decades of Sail -- The Naval Revolution: Ironclads and Policies - The -- Last Imperial Wars and Colonial Expansion -- Two World Wars -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The French Navy Since the Second World War, by Antony Preston -- Select Bibliography - Index.