Bloomsbury Academic
Louis XVI: The Silent King
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- John Hardman
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Paperback
- 9780340706503
- 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.55 inches
- 0.69 pounds
- Biography & Autobiography > Historical
- English
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Louis XVI was at the center of the French Revolution, one of the major turning points in world history, but he remains relatively little known, often portrayed only as the weak, lazy, and treasonous king dominated by Marie-Antoinette. This new investigation by John Hardman, a leading expert on the French Revolution, challenges this stereotype. Drawing on new evidence from Louis XVI's letters and from a large body of new research, Hardman provides the first detailed reconstruction of the king's political thought and sheds new light on the king's character and personality. Ideal for students and scholars of modern history, Louis XVI is an important reconsideration of key aspect of the French and a lively introduction to this willfully enigmatic man.
Louis XVI: The Silent King
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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
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