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...
The experience, and failure, of Louis XVI's short-lived constitutional monarchy of 1789 1792 deeply influenced the politics and course of the French R...
