When the King Took Flight (repost)
When the King Took Flight By Timothy Tackett
Publisher: Harvard University Press 2003 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 067401054X | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Harvard University Press 2003 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 067401054X | PDF | 1 MB
Historian Tackett (UC-Irvine) skillfully shows how Louis XVI's infamous failed flight from his revolutionary captors in Paris in 1791 led to the eventual victory of radicalism and strengthened those calling for terror to "protect" the revolution from its enemies. Attempting to escape across the border to the Austrian Netherlands, the king planned to march a counterrevolutionary army back into France and reestablish Bourbon rule.