John Hardman
John Hardman was Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Edinburgh from 1969-1983 and Senior Research Fellow at Sussex university from 2000-2004. He is the author of many books on eighteenth-century France and has appeared in several television programs, most recently the BBC 2 series on Versailles.
His most recent book The life of Louise XVI is the joint winner of the Franco-British Society Literary Prize for 2016.
Source: Andrew Lownie Literary Agency