The life of Louis XVI /
Louis XVI of France, who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution and Reign of Terror, is commonly portrayed in fiction and film either as a weak and stupid despot in thrall to his beautiful, shallow wife, Marie Antoinette, or as a cruel and treasonous tyrant. Historian John Hardman disputes bo...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
2016.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.13840497 |
Taula de continguts:
- Parentage and ancestry
- Youth on the throne
- The bright beginning, 1774-76
- Drift towards war, 1776-78
- War and war finance, 1778-82
- The embarrassments of peace,1783-85
- Unravelling, 1785-86
- Royal revolution: the Assembly of Notables of 1787
- The road to the Estates-General, May 1787 to May 1789
- The king and the Third Estate
- The invasion of a palace
- The revolution caricatures itself, October 1789 to June 1791
- The flight to Montmedy
- Playing by the Book of the Constitution, 13 September 1791 to 10 August 1792
- The prisoner in the Temple.