Deaths of Louis XVI

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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, a symbol of the Terror and the moral bankruptcy of the Revolution. By the twentieth century, Camus judged ...

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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, a symbol of the Terror and the moral bankruptcy of the Revolution. By the twentieth century, Camus judged ...

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  • Formats: epub
  • ISBN: 9780691224916
  • Publication Date: 9 Feb 2021
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM