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Author Hardman, John.

Title Louis XVI, the silent king / John Hardman.

Publication Info. London : Arnold ; New York : Co-published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2000.

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 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B LOUIS XVI    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 224 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Reputations
Reputations (Arnold (Firm))
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-212) and index.
Contents Table: French kings from Louis XIV -- Introduction: the many faces of Louis XVI -- I. Louis XVI and the ancien regime. 1. Inheritance. 2. The education of a king. 3. 1774: a new monarch - and a new monarchy? 4. Louis XVI and Turgot. 5. Necker, 1776-1781: charlatan or saviour? 6. Foreign policy, 1774-1789. 7. 1781-1787: personal rule? 8. Watershed -- II. Louis XVI and the French Revolution. 9. 1789. 10. Varennes. 11. The fall of the monarchy. 12. Trial and death. 13. Three general perspectives and a conclusion.
Subject Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
France -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
Spine Title Louis XVI
Added Title Louis the sixteenth, the silent king
ISBN 034070649X
9780340706497
0340706503 paperback £12.99
9780340706503 paperback
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