Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the French RevolutionMarshall Cavendish, 2002 - 88 páginas From Alexander the Great to Napoleon Bonaparte... their names fire the imagination with epic triumphs and influential reigns. the lives of their people forged and defined modern civilization. Writing and art left behind from their eras still inspire today. In this new series, readers are introduced to these rulers and their times in an innovative approach to history. |
Índice
Long Live the King | 5 |
Everyday Life in Revolutionary France | 40 |
The French in Their Own Words | 64 |
Map 44 | 79 |
Notes | 85 |
Términos y frases comunes
Adieu American Revolution Austrian Bastille beheaded born and remain Bourbon kings bread Brittany called Castelot Church clergy clothes corvée court courtiers crowd dauphin death divine right dressed Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun Enlightenment Europe farming Fontaine France's French peasants French Revolution guillotine hair Hardman Haslip hated Île-de-France Introduction to Eighteenth Jacobin Club Jacques-Louis David King Louis king's land liberty Loire Long live Louis and Antoinette Louis XIV Louis XVI Louis-Auguste Louis's Madame Elisabeth Marie-Antoinette marquis de Lafayette Mediterranean Sea middle class monarchy Montmédy Nantes National Assembly nobles Normandy old regime paid painted palace Parisians parlement of Paris poor poorest Portable Voltaire provinces Queen of France radical regions reign of Louis Reign of Terror revolutionaries rich River Roche sansculottes second estate Sun King Tennis Court Oath third estate throughout France Versailles wealthy Western Heritage wheat women wore workers wrote XVI and Marie-Antoinette York young Zweig