The King's Trial: Louis XVI Vs. the French RevolutionUniversity of California Press, 2004 - 275 pages On August 10, 1792, Louis XVI of France abandoned his Paris chateau, walked across the Tuileries gardens, and surrendered his crown. In the tumultuous months that followed, he was tried, found guilty, and sent to the guillotine. When originally published, David Jordan's riveting account of that turbulent time identified key issues, focused attention on a matter once considered only an episode of French history, and reframed the academic debate on the meaning of the most significant trial in French history. His new preface considers the scholarship of the past twenty-five years and places The King's Trial in the current context. |
Contents
The End of the Monarchy | 34 |
The Man of the Temple | 79 |
The Accusation | 101 |
The March to the Scaffold | 208 |
The Memory of a King | 222 |
Epilogue | 231 |
Appendix The Third Appel Nominal | 239 |
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accusation acte énonciatif Albert Soboul ancien régime antiregicides appeal argued armed attack August Barbaroux Barère Beaucourt Bibliothèque nationale Bourbons Brissot château Cléry Commune constitution Convention Convention's conventionnels Council court Danton debates December declared decree defend deputies DeSèze Edgeworth Estates-General execution factions flight to Varennes France French Revolution Girondins guards guillotine guilty insisted Jacobins and Girondins January January 15 January 21 Jaurès king's trial lawyers Legislative Louis Capet Louis XVI Louis's trial Louvet Madame Elisabeth Mailhe amendment Mailhe's majority Malesherbes Manège Marat Marie-Antoinette Massacres Mémoires ment monarchy Moniteur Montagnard Mountain National Assembly Paris Parisians Pétion Philippe Egalité plaidoyer political primary assemblies prison procedures Procès proposed punishment question radical refused regicides reprieve republic Révolution française revolutionary Robespierre Roederer Roland roll call royal royalists Saint-Just Santerre save the king scaffold September Massacres speech Temple throne tion tribune Tronchet Tuileries Varennes vention Vergniaud voted for death wanted
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