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The life of Louis XVI / John Hardman.
LIBRA DC137 .H369 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hardman, John, 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
- Louis.
- France--Kings and rulers--Biography.
- France.
- Kings and rulers.
- France--History--Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
- History.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 499 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 450-487) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300220421
- 0300220421
- OCLC:
- 923796131
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