When the king took flight /

"On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the frontier and forced to return to Paris. Two years later, they would both die...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Tackett, Timothy, 1945- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
Sujets:
Louis > XVI, > King of France, > 1754-1793 > Flight to Varennes, 1791.
Louis > XVI, > King of France, > 1754-1793.
1789-1799
HISTORY.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Kings and rulers.
Franse Revolutie.
Ontsnappingen.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799.
Varennes-en-Argonne (France) > History.
France > Kings and rulers > Biography.
France.
France > Varennes-en-Argonne.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Prologue
  • Sire, you may not pass
  • The king takes flight
  • Our good city of Paris
  • The fathers of the nation
  • Fear and repression in the provinces
  • To judge a king
  • The months and years after
  • Conclusion: the power of an event.

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