The Deaths of Louis XVI : : Regicide and the French Political Imagination / / Susan Dunn.
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 historians considered it an alarming miscalculation...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Literature in History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (195 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I POLITICAL MYTHS
- Chapter One LOUIS XVI AND THE CULT OF HUMAN SACRIFICE
- Chapter Two LOUIS XVI AND JOAN OF ARC
- Chapter Three MICHELET AND LAMARTINE: REGICIDE, PASSION, AND COMPASSION
- PART II LITERARY MYTHS
- Chapter Four LOUIS XVI AND HIS EXECUTIONERS
- Chapter Five VICTOR HUGO, KINGSHIP, AND LOUIS XVI
- Chapter Six CAMUS AND LOUIS XVI: A MODERN ELEGY FOR THE MARTYRED KING
- CONCLUSION
- INDEX