When the King Took Flight

Name: When the King Took Flight
Brand: Harvard University Press
SKU: 9780674016422
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Автор: Timothy Tackett

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Harvard University Press

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On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escap...

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Автор

Timothy Tackett

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2004

страници

288

EAN

9780674016422

ISBN

0674016424

Enbook ID

04634651

Издател

Harvard University Press

Теглоt

234

Размери

126 x 203 x 21

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On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the Belgian border and forced to return to Paris. Two years later they would both die at the guillotine. It is this extraordinary story, and the events leading up to and away from it, that Tackett recounts in gripping novelistic style. The king's flight opens a window to the whole of French society during the Revolution. Each dramatic chapter spotlights a different segment of the population, from the king and queen as they plotted and executed their flight, to the people of Varennes who apprehended the royal family, to the radicals of Paris who urged an end to monarchy, to the leaders of the National Assembly struggling to control a spiraling crisis, to the ordinary citizens stunned by their king's desertion. Tackett shows how Louis's flight reshaped popular attitudes toward kingship, intensified fears of invasion and conspiracy, and helped pave the way for the Reign of Terror. Tackett brings to life an array of unique characters as they struggle to confront the monumental transformations set in motion in 1789. In so doing, he offers an important new interpretation of the Revolution. By emphasizing the unpredictable and contingent character of this story, he underscores the power of a single event to change irrevocably the course of the French Revolution, and consequently the history of the world.

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