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Louis XVI and the French Revolution 1789-1792

Caiani, Ambrogio A. (2012) Louis XVI and the French Revolution 1789-1792. Cambridge University Press, 254 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-02633-9. (doi:10.1017/cbo9781139207317) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:40736)

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Book
DOI/Identification number: 10.1017/cbo9781139207317
Additional information: questionable eprint id: 32135;
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DC France
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of History
Depositing User: Stewart Brownrigg
Date Deposited: 07 Mar 2014 00:05 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Mar 2023 11:33 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/40736 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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