xi, 499 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 478-487) and index
Contents:
A dark and difficult childhood Youth on the throne The bright beginning, 1774-76 Drift towards war, 1776-78 American liberty and royal debt, 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 silent 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
