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050 00 $aDC137$b.C35 2012
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100 1 $aCaiani, Ambrogio A.
245 10 $aLouis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789-1792 /$cAmbrogio A. Caiani.
260 $aCambridge, UK :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
300 $axiv, 254 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The experience, and failure, of Louis XVI's short-lived constitutional monarchy of 1789-1792 deeply influenced the politics and course of the French Revolution. The dramatic breakdown of the political settlement of 1789 steered the French state into the decidedly stormy waters of political terror and warfare on an almost global scale. This book explores how the symbolic and political practices which underpinned traditional Bourbon kingship ultimately succumbed to the radical challenge posed by the Revolution's new 'proto-republican' culture. While most previous studies have focused on Louis XVI's real and imagined foreign counterrevolutionary plots, Ambrogio A. Caiani examines the king's hitherto neglected domestic activities in Paris. Drawing on previously unexplored archival source material, Caiani provides an alternative reading of Louis XVI in this period, arguing that the monarch's symbolic behaviour and the organisation of his daily activities and personal household were essential factors in the people's increasing alienation from the newly established constitutional monarchy"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction: Louis XVI, a constitutional monarch?; Part I. Inventing a Constitutional Monarchy: 1. The Maison du Roi at the twilight of the Ancien Régime; 2. The Liste Civile, the new monarchy, Sieyès and the constitution; 3. The court of the Tuileries 1789-1792; Part II. Reform and Survival of the Ancien Régime: 4. The royal guard during the French Revolution; 5. Court presentations and the French Revolution; 6. The age of chivalry is gone?; 7. Louis XVI's chapel during the French Revolution; Conclusion; Bibliography.
600 00 $aLouis$bXVI,$cKing of France,$d1754-1793.
651 0 $aFrance$xHistory$yRevolution, 1789-1799.
651 0 $aFrance$xKings and rulers$vBiography.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / General.$2bisacsh
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856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012018832-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2012018832-t.html