TY - BOOK AU - Hardman,John TI - The life of Louis XVI SN - 9780300220421 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - DC137 .H369 2016 U1 - 944/.035092B 23 PY - 2016///] CY - New Haven, London PB - Yale University Press KW - Louis KW - France KW - Kings and rulers KW - Biography KW - History KW - Louis XVI, 1774-1793 KW - Revolution, 1789-1799 N1 - 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 ER -