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Author : Saul Kussiel Padover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Life and Death of Louis XVI written by Saul Kussiel Padover and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles River Editors
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494299972
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (999 download)
Download or read book The Death of Royalty written by Charles River Editors and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes famous art depicting Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and important people, places, and events in their lives. *Includes a discussion of their roles in the American and French Revolutions. *Includes a comprehensive discussion of their trials and executions. “I die perfectly innocent of the so-called crimes of which I am accused. I pardon those who are the cause of my misfortunes.” – Louis XVI “I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.” – Marie Antoinette Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are among France's most famous royalty, but for reasons they would have much rather avoided. Coming of age in the wake of the reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and his father, Louis XV, Louis XVI initially intended to be one of France's most enlightened Kings. Instead, he was destined to be the only French King ever executed. Indeed, it is his death and his role in fomenting the French Revolution (along with his infamous Queen, Marie Antoinette) that continue to play the central role in Louis XVI's legacy. Throughout history, a countless number of historical figures have had their lives overshadowed by the myths and legends that surround them to the extent that their legacy comes to define them. In French history, this is truer of Marie Antoinette than just about everyone else. Nearly 220 years after she was put to the guillotine, Marie Antoinette is more famous than ever, fairly or unfairly coming to epitomize royalty and everything that was wrong with it. Since her death, Marie Antoinette has been the subject of sharp historical debate over whether she was actually a catalyst in the French Revolution or simply an insignificant scapegoat who was unfairly made a target. At the same time, the one thing everybody associates with Antoinette is the phrase “Let them eat cake”, a spoiled and ignorant comment supposedly made in response to being informed that the peasants had no bread. While that phrase has been used far and wide to depict someone as being out of touch, there's no indication Antoinette ever said anything like it. Nevertheless, she remains a pop culture fixture across the West, perceived just as negatively in death as she was in life. The Death of Royalty explains the couple's role in two of history's most famous revolutions, looks at the life of the famous, ill-fated Royal Family, attempts to separate fact from fiction and analyzes their legacies. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette like you never have before, in no time at all.
Author : Saul Kussiel Padover
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Life and Death of Louis XVI. written by Saul Kussiel Padover and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hardman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220421
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Life of Louis XVI written by John Hardman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Alison Johnson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602433
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Louis XVI and the French Revolution written by Alison Johnson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Susan Dunn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691224919
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Deaths of Louis XVI written by Susan Dunn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Alcide Beauchesne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book Louis XVII written by Alcide Beauchesne and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alcide Beauchesne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Louis XVII written by Alcide Beauchesne and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Grimshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Life of Napoleon written by William Grimshaw and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981881710
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (817 download)
Download or read book French Legends written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes famous art depicting King Louis XVI and important people, places, and events in his life. *Explains his reign and role in the American Revolution and French Revolution. *Analyzes his execution and legacy. "I die perfectly innocent of the so-called crimes of which I am accused. I pardon those who are the cause of my misfortunes." - Louis XVI A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' French series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of France's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. Louis XVI is one of the most famous Kings of France, but for reasons he would have much rather avoided. Coming of age in the wake of the reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and his father, Louis XV, Louis XVI initially intended to be one of France's most enlightened Kings. Instead, he was destined to be the only French King ever executed. Indeed, it is his death and his role in fomenting the French Revolution (along with his infamous Queen, Marie Antoinette) that continue to play the central role in Louis XVI's legacy. The abrupt demise of Louis XVI and his reign capped a tumultuous but important historical period for both France and the rest of the world. It was Louis XVI's wish to reform France in the mold of the Enlightenment and his failure to push those reforms against a reluctant aristocracy that emboldened and spurred those who would rebel against him. At the same time, his support for the American cause during the American Revolution in the 1770s was integral in securing that nation's freedom and further adding to France's financial woes. Ironically, France's role in assuring the success of the American Revolution provided a hopeful example for those who would overthrow him less than 15 years later. The same cautious conservatism that marred his reign in the eyes of so many ultimately led to the chain of events that made him a victim of the guillotine. With French society in open revolt by the late 1780s, the King appeared indecisive at a number of crucial moments, including during a famous attempted escape that was thwarted at Vergennes, and he had to literally run for his life when a mob stormed the royal palace at Tuileries. Soonafter he was stripped of his dignity and his royal name, convicted of high treason in a sham trial as Citizen Louis Capet. Ironically, in death, some historians have asserted that his execution and the sympathy it engendered helped bring about the Restoration a generation later. French Legends: The Life and Legacy of King Louis XVI looks at the life and reign of one of history's most famous Kings, explaining his role in two of history's most famous revolutions and analyzing his legacy. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Louis XVI like you never have before, in no time at all.
Author : Nancy Plain
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761410294
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the French Revolution written by Nancy Plain and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2002 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, including information about their personal lives and accomplishments and everyday life in Revolutionary France.
Author : Laure Murat
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022602587X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon written by Laure Murat and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon were returned to Paris for burial—and the next day, the director of a Paris hospital for the insane admitted fourteen men who claimed to be Napoleon. The challenge, meanwhile, is the claim by great French psychiatrist Jean-Étienne-Dominique Esquirol (1772–1840) that he could recount the history of France through asylum registries. From those two components, Laure Murat embarks on an exploration of the surprising relationship between history and madness. She uncovers countless stories of patients whose delusions seem to be rooted in the historical or political traumas of their time, like the watchmaker who believed he lived with a new head, his original having been removed at the guillotine. In the troubled wake of the Revolution, meanwhile, French physicians diagnosed a number of mental illnesses tied to current events, from “revolutionary neuroses” and “democratic disease” to the “ambitious monomania” of the Restoration. How, Murat asks, do history and psychiatry, the nation and the individual psyche, interface? A fascinating history of psychiatry—but of a wholly new sort—The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon offers the first sustained analysis of the intertwined discourses of madness, psychiatry, history, and political theory.
Author : François Hue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Last Years of the Reign and Life of Louis XVI. written by François Hue and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alcide Beauchesne
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230266718
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Louis Xvii; His Life, His Suffering, His Death, the Captivity of the Royal Family in the Temple written by Alcide Beauchesne and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ... BOOK NINTH. THE KING'S TRIAL. Snd December, 1792--20TB Januaby, 1793 Situation of parties--Cause of the King's trial--New municipality--Kedoubled persecutions--The King learns that his trial is about to take place--Decree of the Commune--Searches made at the Temple-- Rocher and Risbey discharged--Measures of security adopted by Roland --The executive council, the department of Paris, and the Commune sitting permanently--The Dauphin taken from the King--The King before the Convention--Agony of the Queen and Madame Elizabeth-- The King is not permitted to see his family--The King chooses his counsel; Malesherbes, Tronchet, and Des&ze--The King foresees his condemnation--Commission of the Convention sent to the Temple-- Louis XVI. allowed to see his children, on condition that they shall not see their mother--He refuses--The indictment and other official documents connected with the trial communicated to the King--Conferences of Louis XVI. with his counsel--M. Edgeworth de Firmont-- Secret communication between the two floors of the Tower--Anniversary of the birth of Madame Royale--Conversations with Malesherbes --Deseze reads his plea to the King--The King's will--The King again at the bar of the Convention--His defence--His speech--The 1st January, 1Y93--The journals--Manifestation of opinion at the theatres--Illness of Madame Royale--The Ami des Lois read at the Temple--The King declared guilty--The nominal appeal--New message to M. Edgeworth de Firmont--Condemnation of the King--His speech--Appeal to the nation--The King's farewell to M. Malesherbes --Inventory drawn up at the Temple. During the imprisonment of the royal family at the Temple, we have not narrated the events which succeeded each other out of doors, except where their...
Author : Maxime de La Rocheterie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Life of Marie Antoinette written by Maxime de La Rocheterie and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780947608057
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 1789 and 1793 written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Grimshaw
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Life of Napoleon written by William Grimshaw and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
