The life of Louis XVI /John Hardman.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Parentage and ancestry -- Youth on the throne -- The bright beginning, 1774-76 -- Drift towards war, 1776-78 -- War and war finance, 1778-82 -- The embarrassments of peace,1783-85 -- Unravelling, 1785-86 -- Royal revolution: the Assembly of Notables of 1787 -- The road to the Estates-General, May 1787 to May 1789 -- The king and the Third Estate -- The invasion of a palace -- The revolution caricatures itself, October 1789 to June 1791 -- The flight to Montmedy -- Playing by the Book of the Constitution, 13 September 1791 to 10 August 1792 -- The prisoner in the Temple.