Traumatic Politics: The Deputies and the King in the Early French Revolution - Paperback

by Barry M. Shapiro (Author)

Examines the ramifications of the fear of imminent death that many National Assembly deputies felt as they anticipated an attack from the soldiers of Louis XVI in the days preceding the fall of the Bastille, at the beginning of the French Revolution.

Author Biography

Barry M. Shapiro is Professor of History at Allegheny College.