The Deaths of Louis XVI: Regicide and the French Political Imagination

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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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Main Author: Dunn, Susan 1945- (Author)
Contributors: O'Brien, Connor Cruise (Contributor) ; O’Brien, Conor Cruise (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2022]
In:Year: 2022
Series/Journal:Literature in History 3
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Louis XVI France, King 1754-1793 / Death / Reception
B Louis XVI France, King 1754-1793 / Execution / Effect
B Victim (Religion)
B Girard, René 1923-2015
Further subjects:B Popular sovereignty
B American Civil War
B Enlightenment
B Public Opinion (France) History 19th century
B Individualism
B German fascism
B Effects
B American Revolution
B Blanc, Louis
B Ideology
B Bourbon dynasty
B Political Violence
B Legitimacy (political)
B Girondins
B Historians (France) Political and social views
B Literature
B Koestler, Arthur
B Kings and rulers in literature
B Totalitarianism
B Grenoble conspiracy
B Jesus Christ
B Capital Punishment
B Execution of Louis XVI
B German war criminals
B Nazism
B King's murder
B Politique
B Divine right of kings
B Monarchy
B Judaism
B Death
B Effect
B Public opinion
B abdication
B Buchez, Philippe
B Hebrew Bible
B Marie-Antoinette
B French Revolution
B Assassination
B chosen people concept
B Decapitation
B Regicides Public opinion
B Monarchy (France) Public opinion
B Political culture
B Trial of Louis XVI
B Biography
B capitalism
B Regicide Public opinion
B Victor Hugo
B On Revolution
B civic virtue
B France
B Jules Michelet
B Europe / France / HISTORY
B Joseph de Maistre
B French people
B Parricide
B Hannah Arendt
B Napoleon I
B citizenship
B Religion
B Christianity
B Monarchism
B Old Testament
B American amnesty
B Political attitude
B Belgians
B Geschichte 1793
B Regicide
B Franco-Prussian War
B Indian mythology
B Writing
B Charles VII
B Politics
B Nonviolence
B Lakanal, Joseph
B Dreyfus affair
B English readers
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