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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Louis XVI"”.
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Reading the Terror over Tea: Reflections of British Nationalism in the Guillotine's Blade, 1793-1795
… period of the Terror--the trial and execution of Louis XVI, the trial and execution of Marie-Antoinette, the murder of Marat, the execution of Madame Roland, and the fall of Maximilien Robespierre--in light of an evolving British national identity. The newspaper accounts of these reveal a …
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Education for revolution: pamphlets and the politicization of French society, 1787-1789
<p>Historians, long in the habit of looking upon the French Revolution as the "beginning" of the modern world, have concentrated their attention on the spectacular events of 1789 and later and have neglected in comparison the history of the years immediately preceding the Revolution. This imbalance …
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Princess On The Margins: Toward A New Portrait Of Madame Élisabeth De France
… past the perpetuation of prior biographies on Louis XVI’s sister which make the princess out to be a “virgin martyr” and instead focuses on the princess’s political agency and place with the political culture of the French Revolution.</p>
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Individual as political symbol : Warren Hastings and Marie Antoinette in the writings of Edmund Burke.
Although Edmund Burke's political writings have exerted a considerable influence on English, European, and American thought, critics and historians over the last two hundred years have debated the exact nature of Burke's contributions. In the 1950s, however, a group of scholars including Russell …