Skip to main content

When the King Took Flight

By: Harvard University Press

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical & Reference Books (Harvard University Press)

Last Stocked on 8/24/2024

Product Info

Title
When the King Took Flight
Category
Author
Timothy Tackett
Publish Year
2003
Pages
270
Dimensions
6.5x9.5x1"
NKG Part #
2148037021
Type
Hardcover

Description

On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a few miles from the Belgian border and forced to return to Paris. Two years later they would both die at the guillotine. It is this extraordinary story, and the events leading up to and away from it, that Tackett recounts in gripping novelistic style.