Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789-1792

Informationen zum Autor Ambrogio A. Caiani is College and Departmental Lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall and at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. Klappentext This book revisits and analyses the early French Revolution's epic struggle against the Bourbon monarchy and its symbolic culture. Zusammenfassung This reassessment of Louis XVI's short-lived constitutional monarchy of 1789–92 examines the king's hitherto neglected domestic activities in Paris in this period. Ambrogio A. Caiani argues that the monarch's symbolic behaviour and the organisation of his daily activities and household were essential factors in his increasing alienation from the people. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 1789-92; 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ambrogio Caiani, Ambrogio A. Caiani, Dr. Ambrogio A. Caiani
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.02.2017
• EAN: 9781107631014
• ISBN: 978-1-107-63101-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories