The Life Of Louis Xvi
Download The Life Of Louis Xvi full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The Life Of Louis Xvi ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
The Life of Louis XVI
Author | : John Hardman |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300220421 |
Download The Life of Louis XVI Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers 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 both these versions in a fascinating new biography of the ill-fated monarch. Based in part on new scholarship that has emerged over the past two decades, Hardman's illuminating study describes a highly educated ruler who, though indecisive, possessed sharp political insight and a talent for foreign policy; who often saw the dangers ahead but could not or would not prevent them; and whose great misfortune was to be caught in the violent center of a major turning point in history. Hardman's dramatic reassessment of the reign of Louis XVI sheds a bold new light on the man, his actions, his world, and his policies, including the king's support for America's War of Independence, the intricate workings of his court, the disastrous Diamond Necklace Affair, and Louis's famous dash to Varennes.
The Life of Louis XVI
Author | : John Hardman |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2016-06-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300221657 |
Download The Life of Louis XVI Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history’s most maligned rulers: France’s Louis XVI “The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch.”—P. M. Jones, English Historical Review “Monumental. . . . Scholars probing the mysteries of the late Old Regime and French Revolution will be working in its shadow for many years to come.”—Thomas E. Kaiser, Journal of Modern History 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 both these versions in a fascinating new biography of the ill-fated monarch. Based in part on new scholarship that has emerged over the past two decades, Hardman’s illuminating study describes a highly educated ruler who, though indecisive, possessed sharp political insight and a talent for foreign policy; who often saw the dangers ahead but could not or would not prevent them; and whose great misfortune was to be caught in the violent center of a major turning point in history. Hardman’s dramatic reassessment of the reign of Louis XVI sheds a bold new light on the man, his actions, his world, and his policies, including the king’s support for America’s War of Independence, the intricate workings of his court, the disastrous Diamond Necklace Affair, and Louis’s famous dash to Varennes.
The Life of Louis XVI
Author | : John Hardman |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-06-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300273649 |
Download The Life of Louis XVI Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers: France's Louis XVI "The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch."--P. M. Jones, English Historical Review "Monumental. . . . Scholars probing the mysteries of the late Old Regime and French Revolution will be working in its shadow for many years to come."--Thomas E. Kaiser, Journal of Modern History 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 both these versions in a fascinating new biography of the ill-fated monarch. Based in part on new scholarship that has emerged over the past two decades, Hardman's illuminating study describes a highly educated ruler who, though indecisive, possessed sharp political insight and a talent for foreign policy; who often saw the dangers ahead but could not or would not prevent them; and whose great misfortune was to be caught in the violent center of a major turning point in history. Hardman's dramatic reassessment of the reign of Louis XVI sheds a bold new light on the man, his actions, his world, and his policies, including the king's support for America's War of Independence, the intricate workings of his court, the disastrous Diamond Necklace Affair, and Louis's famous dash to Varennes.
Louis XVI and the French Revolution
Author | : Alison Johnson |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2013-05-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781476602431 |
Download Louis XVI and the French Revolution Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Louis XVI was a gentle and unassuming man who did not want to be king but attempted to work for the welfare of his people--until his government was engulfed by the violent upheavals of the French Revolution. Facing the rapidly changing desires of his subjects, he gave way to the policies they demanded. Few rulers have acquiesced to such startling changes of government within such a brief span of time. Louis XVI lacked the charisma of Marie Antoinette, but he is remarkable for the courage he exhibited when facing violent armed men only a few feet away. The quiet dignity with which he approached his execution has been praised by countless people, including Albert Camus and Victor Hugo. This biography traces the painfully exciting events involving Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and their two children. The royal family was first taken by a violent mob from Versailles to Paris. They attempted an escape but it failed when they had almost reached safety. A year later the king and queen were guillotined.
Louis XVI The Silent King and the Estates
Author | : John Hardman |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300060777 |
Download Louis XVI The Silent King and the Estates Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Study of the reign of Louis XVI
The Life and Death of Louis XVI
Author | : Saul Kussiel Padover |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015062914042 |
Download The Life and Death of Louis XVI Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Deaths of Louis XVI
Author | : Susan Dunn |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2021-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691224916 |
Download The Deaths of Louis XVI Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The public beheading of Louis XVI was a unique and troubling event that scarred French collective memory for two centuries. To Jacobins, the king's decapitation was the people's coronation. To royalists, it was deicide. Nineteenth-century historians considered it an alarming miscalculation, a symbol of the Terror and the moral bankruptcy of the Revolution. By the twentieth century, Camus judged that the killing stood at the "crux of our contemporary history." In this book, Susan Dunn investigates the regicide's pivotal role in French intellectual history and political mythology. She examines how thinkers on the right and left repudiated regicide and terror, while articulating a compassionate, humanitarian vision, which became the moral basis for the modern French nation. Their credo of fraternity and unity, however, strangely depoliticized this supremely political act of regicide. Using theoretical insights from Tocqueville, Arendt, Rawls, Walzer, and others, Dunn explores the transformation of violent regicidal politics into an apolitical cult of ethical purity and an antidemocratic nationalist religion. Her book focuses on the fluidity of political myths. The figure of Louis XVI was transmuted into a Joan of Arc and a deified nation, and the notion of his sacrifice contributed to the disquieting myth of a mystical community of self- sacrificing citizens.
Louis XVII
Author | : Alcide Beauchesne |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112107999580 |
Download Louis XVII Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle