The sum total of the fundamental views of French bourgeois historians represented by Thierry, Mignet and Guizot on historical development during the Bourbon Restoration period in France from 1814 to 1830. The French historians of the Restoration period held that interests are the source and driving force of all social systems and undertakings, that economic interests are the foundation of the political institutions and their thoughts and theories, and that class struggle is the driving force of historical development. Among them, the theory of class struggle was the core idea in the conception of history of the French historians of the Restoration period. . .
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