"LE REGIME MODERNE" volume I had been printed in only 8 editions.

Photographic reprints appeared in the US in 1932 and 1962.
Taine's description and analysis of events in France between 1750 and 1870 are, as you will see colorful, lucid, and sometimes intense.

His style might today appear dated since he writes in rather long sentences, using parables to drive his points firmly home.

His books were widely read in academic circles and therefore influenced a great many political students in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Lenin, who came to Paris around 1906, might well have profited by Taine's analysis.