| Description |
1 online resource (529 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
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France -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
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France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
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France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hardman, John. Life of Louis XVI. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016] 9780300220421 |
| ISBN |
9780300220421 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780300220421 |
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9780300221657 (e-book) |
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