The Deaths of Louis XVI : Regicide and the French Political Imagination. /
The public beheading of Louis XVI was a unique and troubling event that scarred French collective memory for two centuries. To Jacobins, the king's decapitation was the people's coronation. To royalists, it was deicide. Nineteenth-century historians considered it an alarming miscalculation...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
1994.
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| Series: | Literature in History Ser.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv19fvzrg |