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Article: Louis XVI. (book reviews)
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- December 1, 1993
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LOUIS XVI
John Hardman
Yale University Press
vii +264 pp. 20 pounds
At a time when admission to the dominant school of French Revolutionary historiography seems to require a higher degree in cultural theory, it is refreshing to be able to welcome two books which are both important and comprehensible. The need for a biography of Louis XVI which goes beyond a retreading of the old memoir literature has long been recognised. If John Hardman does not provide the last word on the subject, his scholarly and readable study goes straight to the head of the list, proving once again that French history is too important to be left to the ...