The Life of Louis XVI
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (548 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300220421 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Historian John Hardman disputes both these versions in a fascinating new biography of the ill-fated monarch. A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history’s most maligned rulers Louis XVI of France, who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution and Reign of Terror, is commonly portrayed in fiction and film either as a weak and stupid despot in thrall to his beautiful, shallow wife, Marie Antoinette, or as a cruel and treasonous tyrant. Hardman’s dramatic reassessment of the reign of Louis XVI sheds a bold new light on the man, his actions, his world, and his policies, including the king’s support for
Superb David Tooke I can't recommend this highly enough. Hartman is that rare commodity -- he knows his stuff, he writes well, he makes judgments which seem sound (and seem to come from someone with real experience of the world). Here he takes one of those cardboard characters of history -- the doltish, ineffectual last ancient regime king of France wh. The Life of Louis XVI is a detailed examination of the life and career of the doomed Bourbon monarch who was executed in 1792 C. M Mills The Life of Louis XVI was a tragic and short one. Louis was the son of the Dauphin of France who died young leaving the young Bourbon to govern a large and important nation of twenty eight million persons. Louis was reformed minded and seemed to be a good replacement for his womanizing and luxury loving grandfather Louis XV. However,. Anne L. Prescott said Ambivalence. I much enjoyed the sheer volume of material as well as the fairness to Louis (and could have used more material on the king's wife). The author, I think, fails to use the same complex approach to the revolutionaries, especially Robespierre, as he so intelligently does when writing about the king. My main problem is with the prose, wh
Hardman’s style is accessible, often witty, and he has a gift for putting complex issues in a nutshell. “An up-to-date, immensely erudite and compelling study, the fruit of a lifetime’s work on the king. Louis XVI remains one of the crucial characters in modern history… and this is now the best biography of him in any language.”—Munro Price, Literary Review. It is also crisply, sometimes brilliantly,written