Research Catalog

Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789-1792

Title

Louis XVI and the French Revolution, 1789-1792 / Ambrogio A. Caiani.

Author

Caiani, Ambrogio A.

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Supplementary Content

Available Online

Table of contents only

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JFE 13-661	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Details

Description

xiv, 254 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The experience, and failure, of Louis XVI's short-lived constitutional monarchy of 1789-1792 deeply influenced the politics and course of the French Revolution. The dramatic breakdown of the political settlement of 1789 steered the French state into the decidedly stormy waters of political terror and warfare on an almost global scale. This book explores how the symbolic and political practices which underpinned traditional Bourbon kingship ultimately succumbed to the radical challenge posed by the Revolution's new 'proto-republican' culture. While most previous studies have focused on Louis XVI's real and imagined foreign counterrevolutionary plots, Ambrogio A. Caiani examines the king's hitherto neglected domestic activities in Paris. Drawing on previously unexplored archival source material, Caiani provides an alternative reading of Louis XVI in this period, arguing that the monarch's symbolic behaviour and the organisation of his daily activities and personal household were essential factors in the people's increasing alienation from the newly established constitutional monarchy"--

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 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 1789-1792; 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.

Call Number