THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LOUIS XVI
by Padover, Saul K
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Taplinger Publishing Company, New York, 1963. Royal octavo, hardcover, VG in good, somewhat edgeworn dark blue dj protected in mylar sleeve. 373 pages. Based almost entirely upon first-hand study of the original sources in the Paris, Vienna and London Archives, the author's dramatic and illuminating book sheds new light on the french revolution and on the character of Louis XVI and many of those whose lives touched his. it re-appraises Marie Antoinette, reveals facts about her intimate relations with her husband formerly forbidden by the Vienna Archives, tells much previously unknown about her, and shows the disastrous political role she played out of blindness and ignorance. Above all, the author narrates in full and exciting details the personal, human story of Louis XVI, his background, his education, his good intentions, his genuine attempts to bring happiness to his people, his tragic death, and the final dignity of his death under the guillotine. The book tells the whole moving and terrible story.
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- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52273
- Title
- THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LOUIS XVI
- Author
- Padover, Saul K
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Taplinger Publishing Company, New York, 1963
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