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Title:Monarchy By David Starkey - The execution of King Louis XVI of France
Date:11th December 2006
Summary:The execution of King Louis XVI of France in 1793 was a moment of crisis for the British monarchy.Survival (11 December 2006): When, in 1789, the Bastille prison in Paris was stormed and the French Revolution began, few in Britain - least of all King George III, who was recovering from one of his bouts of madness - thought that it would lead to a cataclysmic war with France.
Description:David Starkey's ambitious history of Britain's monarchy continues,from Restoration to the end of Victoria's reign.