Download e-book for kindle: When the King Took Flight by Timothy TACKETT

By Timothy TACKETT

On a June evening in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in hide, hoping to flee the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They have been arrested via a small crew of electorate a couple of miles from the Belgian border and compelled to come to Paris. years later they'd either die on the guillotine. it's this amazing tale, and the occasions major as much as and clear of it, that Tackett recounts in gripping novelistic style.

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