The Deaths of Louis XVI: Regicide and the French Political Imagination by Susan Dunn

The Deaths of Louis XVI: Regicide and the French Political Imagination

Susan Dunn

192 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

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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 historia...

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