Ebook: The life of Louis XVI

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-May 1789 -- The silent king and the third estate -- The invasion of a palace -- The revolution caricatures itself, October 1789-June 1791 -- The flight to Montmédy -- Playing by the book of the constitution, 13 September 1791-10 August 1792 -- The prisoner in the temple.