Ambrogio A. Caiani

Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789-1792

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book revisits and analyses the early French Revolution's epic struggle against the Bourbon monarchy and its symbolic culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781107026339
• ISBN-10: 1107026334
• Artikelnr.: 35911556

Autorenporträt

Ambrogio A. Caiani is College and Departmental Lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall and at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Louis XVI, a constitutional monarch?
Part I. Inventing a Constitutional Monarchy: 1. The Maison du Roi at the twilight of the Ancien Régime
2. The Liste Civile, the new monarchy, Sieyès and the constitution
3. The court of the Tuileries 1789-92
Part II. Reform and Survival of the Ancien Régime: 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.