Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789-1792

"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 politica...

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Main Author: Caiani, Ambrogio A.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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245 1 0 |a Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789-1792  |h [electronic resource] /  |c Ambrogio A. Caiani. 
260 |a Cambridge :  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c 2012. 
300 |a xiv, 254 p. :  |b ill. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Louis XVI, a constitutional monarch?; Part I. Inventing a Constitutional Monarchy: 1. The Maison du Roi at the twilight of the Ancien R�egime; 2. The Liste Civile, the new monarchy, Siey�es and the constitution; 3. The court of the Tuileries 1789-1792; Part II. Reform and Survival of the Ancien R�egime: 4. The royal guard during the French Revolution; 5. Court presentations and the French Revolution; 6. The age of chivalry is gone?; 7. Louis XVI's chapel during the French Revolution; Conclusion; Bibliography. 
520 |a "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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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