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Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789-1792 (Hardcover, New)
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Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789-1792 (Hardcover, New)
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The experience, and failure, of Louis XVI's short-lived
constitutional monarchy of 1789 1792 deeply influenced the politics
and course of the French Revolution. The dramatic breakdown of the
political settlement of 1789 steered the French state into the
decidedly stormy waters of political terror and warfare on an
almost global scale. This book explores how the symbolic and
political practices which underpinned traditional Bourbon kingship
ultimately succumbed to the radical challenge posed by the
Revolution's new 'proto-republican' culture. While most previous
studies have focused on Louis XVI's real and imagined foreign
counterrevolutionary plots, Ambrogio A. Caiani examines the king's
hitherto neglected domestic activities in Paris. Drawing on
previously unexplored archival source material, Caiani provides an
alternative reading of Louis XVI in this period, arguing that the
monarch's symbolic behaviour and the organisation of his daily
activities and personal household were essential factors in the
people's increasing alienation from the newly established
constitutional monarchy.
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