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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| 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. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 450-487) and index. |
| Summary |
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 both these versions in a fascinating new biography of the ill-fated monarch. Based in part on new scholarship that has emerged over the past two decades, Hardman's illuminating study describes a highly educated ruler who, though indecisive, possessed sharp political insight and a talent for foreign policy; who often saw the dangers ahead but could not or would not prevent them; and whose great misfortune was to be caught in the violent center of a major turning point in history. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
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Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793. |
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Revolution (France : 1789-1799) |
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France -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
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France. |
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Kings and rulers. |
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Biographies.
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France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
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France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
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1774-1799 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hardman, John, 1944- Life of Louis XVI. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016 9780300220421 (DLC) 2016001789 (OCoLC)923796131 |
| ISBN |
9780300221657 (electronic book) |
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0300221657 (electronic book) |
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9780300220421 |
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0300220421 |
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