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The Deaths of Louis XVI: Regicide and the French Political Imagination (Literature in History)
The Deaths of Louis XVI Regicide and the French Political Imagination - Literature in History
Author: Susan Dunn
The public beheading of Louis XVI was a unique and troubling event that scarred French collective memory for two centuries. To Jacobins, the king's decapitation was the people's coronation. To royalists, it was deicide. Nineteenth-century historians considered it an alarming miscalculation, a symbol of the Terror and the moral bankruptcy of the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691141558
ISBN-10: 069114155X
Publication Date: 11/24/2008
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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