The Deaths of Louis XVI:
Regicide and the French Political Imagination
Susan Dunn
With a foreword by Conor Cruise O'Brien

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Foreword
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
Pt. I	Political Myths
Ch. 1	Louis XVI and the Cult of Human Sacrifice	15
Ch. 2	Louis XVI and Joan of Arc	38
Ch. 3	Michelet and Lamartine: Regicide, Passion, and Compassion	67
Pt. II	Literary Myths
Ch. 4	Louis XVI and His Executioners	95
Ch. 5	Victor Hugo, Kingship, and Louis XVI	116
Ch. 6	Camus and Louis XVI: A Modern Elegy for the Martyred King	140
	Conclusion	165
	Index	171

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