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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 bo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hardman, John, 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016.
Temas:
Louis > XVI, > King of France, > 1754-1793.
Ludwig > XVI. > Frankreich, König > 1754-1793
1774-1799
Kings, queens, rulers, etc.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Kings and rulers.
France > Kings and rulers > Biography.
France > History > Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799.
France > Histoire > 1774-1793 (Louis XVI)
France.
Biography
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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