When the King Took Flight

Name: When the King Took Flight
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ISBN: 9780674016422

ISBN-10: 0674016424

ISBN-13: 9780674016422

Edition: 2003

Authors: Timothy Tackett

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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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/18/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.94" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Maps and Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Prologue



Sire, You May Not Pass



The King of the French



The King Takes Flight



Our Good City of Paris



The Fathers of the Nation



Fear and Repression in the Provinces



To Judge a King



The Months and Years After


Conclusion: The Power of an Event


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index