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The life of Louis XVI /

Hardman, John, 1944-

The life of Louis XVI / John Hardman. - xi, 499 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 478-487) and index.

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.

9780300220421 (cloth : alk. paper)

2016001789


Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.


France--Kings and rulers--Biography.
France--History--Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

DC137 / .H369 2016

944/.035092 B

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