Author: Michel VovellePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521289160
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The first volume in The French Revolution Series, on the fall of the French monarchy 1787-1792.
The Fall of the French Monarchy 1787-1792
Author: Michel VovellePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521289160
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The first volume in The French Revolution Series, on the fall of the French monarchy 1787-1792.
The Fall of the French Monarchy
Author: Munro PricePublisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447211693
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Munro Price has meticulously researched the mood, atmosphere and personalities behind the palace walls. At the heart of this research is a cache of letters that sheds new light on the lives of the royals, as the monarchy was gradually stripped of its power and revolutionary fervour called for their execution. The central character in this new evidence is the Baron de Breteuil, Louis's ambassador in exile, who orchestrated doomed escape plans and co-ordinated the international response to the revolution.This new book reassesses a perennially interesting period of history and will shed fresh insight into one of the real tuning points in European history
The Road from Versailles
Author: Munro PricePublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466869143
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
What becomes of leaders when absolute power is wrested from their hands? How does dramatic political change affect once-absolute monarchs? In acclaimed historian Munro Price's powerful new book, he confronts one of the enduring mysteries of the French Revolution---what were the true actions and feelings of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they watched their sovereignty collapse? Dragged back from Versailles to Paris by the crowd in October 1789, the king and queen became prisoners in the capital. They were compelled for their own safety to approve the Revolution and its agenda. Yet, in deep secrecy, they soon began to develop a very different, and dangerous, strategy. The precautions they took against discovery, and the bloody overthrow of the monarchy three years later, dispersed or obliterated most of the clues to their real policy. Much of this evidence has until now remained unknown. The Road from Versailles reconstructs in detail, for the first time, the king and queen's clandestine diplomacy from 1789 until their executions. To do so, it focuses on a vital but previously ignored figure, the royal couple's confidant, the baron de Breteuil. Exiled from France by the Revolution, Breteuil became their secret prime minister, and confidential emissary to the courts of Europe. Along with the queen's probable lover, the comte de Fersen, it was Breteuil who organized the royal family's dramatic dash for freedom, the flight to Varennes. Breteuil's role is crucial to an understanding of what Louis and Marie Antoinette secretly felt and thought during the Revolution. To unlock these secrets, The Road from Versailles draws on highly important unpublished and previously unknown material. Meticulously researched and utterly fascinating, The Road from Versailles provides fresh insight into some of the most controversial events in modern history.
Martin's History of France
Author: Henri MartinThe Decline of the French Monarchy
Author: Henri MartinThe Fall of the French Monarchy
Author: John BartholomewThe Fall of the French Monarchy: Or Louis XVI, an Historical Tragedy in Five Acts (1794)
Author: John BartholomewPublisher:
ISBN: 9781104912734
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
This book, Lectures On The Formation Of Character, Temptations And Mission Of Young Men (1853), by Rufus Wheelwright Clark, is a replication of a book originally published before 1861. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature.
The Last Days of the French Monarchy
Author: Hilaire BellocPublisher: London : Chapman & Hall
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Marie Antoinette and the Decline of French Monarchy
Author: Nancy LotzPublisher: Morgan Reynolds Publishing
ISBN: 9781931798280
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Of all the daughters of the formidable Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, Archduchess Maria Antonia was the least prepared to become queen of France. Sweet and kind, she did not like school and showed no interest in politics. Nevertheless, at age fourteen she was sent to the opulent palace at Versailles, outside Paris, to marry the future King Louis XVI. Marie Antoinette's new husband, intelligent but shy and indecisive, was not a strong king. His days were filled with hunting, and hers with games and socializing. Neither seemed aware of the tension building in France because of high taxes, scarce food, and political injustice. The queen's spending habits and foreign birth caused the people of France to turn their anger on her. When the French Revolution erupted in 1789, Louis was unable to maintain control. He was arrested, imprisoned, then beheaded; Marie Antoinette followed him to the guillotine nine months later. Marie Antoinette and the Decline of French Monarchy brings to life the tragic story of the lovely but naive queen who paid with her life for the mistakes of the entire ruling class Book jacket.
Author: Henri Martin