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Louis Xvi The Silent King And The Estates
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Author : John Hardman
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Louis Xvi The Silent King And The Estates written by John Hardman and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Study of the reign of Louis XVI
Louis Xvi And The French Revolution
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Author : Alison Johnson
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-05-27
Louis Xvi And The French Revolution written by Alison Johnson and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-27 with History categories.
Louis XVI was a gentle and unassuming man who did not want to be king but attempted to work for the welfare of his people--until his government was engulfed by the violent upheavals of the French Revolution. Facing the rapidly changing desires of his subjects, he gave way to the policies they demanded. Few rulers have acquiesced to such startling changes of government within such a brief span of time. Louis XVI lacked the charisma of Marie Antoinette, but he is remarkable for the courage he exhibited when facing violent armed men only a few feet away. The quiet dignity with which he approached his execution has been praised by countless people, including Albert Camus and Victor Hugo. This biography traces the painfully exciting events involving Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and their two children. The royal family was first taken by a violent mob from Versailles to Paris. They attempted an escape but it failed when they had almost reached safety. A year later the king and queen were guillotined.
Judgment And Execution Of Louis Xvi King Of France
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Author : Henry Goudemetz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1795
Judgment And Execution Of Louis Xvi King Of France written by Henry Goudemetz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1795 with France categories.
Louis Xvii
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Author : Alcide Beauchesne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1853
Louis Xvii written by Alcide Beauchesne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1853 with France categories.
That ever yet this land was guilty of. Shakespeare: Richard III., Act iv., Sc. 3. Louis OF france, the seventeenth of the name, lived only ten years, two months, and twelve days. He bore the title of king only beneath the thatched roofs of La Vendee, and Within the tents of an exiled nobility. A few words, then, might seem to suffice for the narration of his life. -- Provided by publisher.
The Road From Versailles
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Author : Munro Price
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2004-03
The Road From Versailles written by Munro Price and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
What becomes of leaders when absolute power is wrested from their hands? How does dramatic political change affect once-absolute monarchs? In The Road from Versailles, acclaimed historian Munro Price confronts one of the enduring mysteries of the French Revolution: What were the true actions and feelings of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they watched their sovereignty collapse? Dragged back from Versailles to Paris by the mob in October 1789, the king and queen became prisoners in the capital. They were compelled to publicly approve of the Revolution and its agenda, but, in deep secrecy, they began to develop a very different and dangerous strategy. The precautions they took against discovery, and the bloody overthrow of the monarchy three years later, dispersed or obliterated most of the clues to their real goals. Much of this evidence has until now remained unknown. The Road from Versailles reconstructs in detail, for the first time, the king and queen's clandestine diplomacy from 1789 until their executions. To do so, it focuses on a vital but previously ignored figure, the royal couple's confidante, the baron de Breteuil. Exiled from France by the Revolution, Breteuil became their secret prime minister, and confidential emissary to the courts of Europe. Along with the queen's probable lover, the comte de Fersen, it was Breteuil who organized the royal family's dramatic dash for freedom, the flight to Varennes. Breteuil's role is crucial to understanding what Louis and Marie Antoinette secretly felt and thought during the Revolution. To unlock these secrets, Munro Price draws on highly important unpublished and previously unknown material. Meticulously researched and utterly fascinating, The Road from Versailles provides fresh insight into some of the most controversial events in modern history.
The Deaths Of Louis Xvi
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Author : Susan Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-09
The Deaths Of Louis Xvi written by Susan Dunn and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-09 with History categories.
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, a symbol of the Terror and the moral bankruptcy of the Revolution. By the twentieth century, Camus judged that the killing stood at the "crux of our contemporary history." In this book, Susan Dunn investigates the regicide's pivotal role in French intellectual history and political mythology. She examines how thinkers on the right and left repudiated regicide and terror, while articulating a compassionate, humanitarian vision, which became the moral basis for the modern French nation. Their credo of fraternity and unity, however, strangely depoliticized this supremely political act of regicide. Using theoretical insights from Tocqueville, Arendt, Rawls, Walzer, and others, Dunn explores the transformation of violent regicidal politics into an apolitical cult of ethical purity and an antidemocratic nationalist religion. Her book focuses on the fluidity of political myths. The figure of Louis XVI was transmuted into a Joan of Arc and a deified nation, and the notion of his sacrifice contributed to the disquieting myth of a mystical community of self- sacrificing citizens.
The Last Years Of The Reign And Life Of Louis Xvi
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Author : François Hue
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1806
The Last Years Of The Reign And Life Of Louis Xvi written by François Hue and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1806 with France categories.
Louis Xvi And The French Revolution 1789 1792
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Author : Ambrogio A. Caiani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Louis Xvi And The French Revolution 1789 1792 written by Ambrogio A. Caiani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with France categories.
"The experience, and failure, of Louis XVI's short-lived constitutional monarchy of 1789-1792 deeply influenced the politics and course of the French Revolution. The dramatic breakdown of the political settlement of 1789 steered the French state into the decidedly stormy waters of political terror and warfare on an almost global scale. This book explores how the symbolic and political practices which underpinned traditional Bourbon kingship ultimately succumbed to the radical challenge posed by the Revolution's new 'proto-republican' culture. While most previous studies have focused on Louis XVI's real and imagined foreign counterrevolutionary plots, Ambrogio A. Caiani examines the king's hitherto neglected domestic activities in Paris. Drawing on previously unexplored archival source material, Caiani provides an alternative reading of Louis XVI in this period, arguing that the monarch's symbolic behaviour and the organisation of his daily activities and personal household were essential factors in the people's increasing alienation from the newly established constitutional monarchy"--
The French Court And Society
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Author : Lady Catherine Charlotte Jackson
language : en
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
Release Date : 1881
The French Court And Society written by Lady Catherine Charlotte Jackson and has been published by London : R. Bentley this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with France categories.
Louis Xvi And His Family In The Temple November 1792 Painted By E M Ward R A An Anonymous Description Of The Painting
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Author : Edward Matthew Ward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859
Louis Xvi And His Family In The Temple November 1792 Painted By E M Ward R A An Anonymous Description Of The Painting written by Edward Matthew Ward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with categories.