Church and Society in Eighteenth‐Century France. Volume 1: The Clerical Establishment and Its Social Ramifications. Volume 2: The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion. By John McManners. Oxford History of the Christian Church. Edited by, Henry Chadwick and Owen Chadwick. New York: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xviii+817 and xiv+866. $155.00, each volume.