When the King Took Flight
ISBN: 9780674016422 | 0674016424
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 10/18/2004
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On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the Belgian border and forced to return to Paris. Two years later they would both die at the guillotine. It is this extraordinary story, and the events leading up to and away from it, that Tackett recounts in gripping novelistic style. The king's flight opens a window to the whole of French society during the Revolution. Each dramatic... MORE
| Maps and Illustrations | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Prologue | p. 1 |
| Sire, You May Not Pass | p. 3 |
| The King of the French | p. 26 |
| The King Takes Flight | p. 57 |
| Our Good City of Paris | p. 88 |
| The Fathers of the Nation | p. 119 |
| Fear and Repression in the Provinces | p. 151 |
| To Judge a King | p. 179 |
| The ... MORE | p. 203 |
| Conclusion: The Power of an Event | p. 219 |
| Abbreviations | p. 227 |
| Notes | p. 229 |
| Bibliography | p. 247 |
| Index | p. 259 |
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Timothy Tackett is Professor of History at the University of California at Irvine.
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