[Gutenberg 42757] • The Countess of Charny; or, The Execution of King Louis XVI

[Gutenberg 42757] • The Countess of Charny; or, The Execution of King Louis XVI
Authors
Dumas, Alexandre
Publisher
Not Avail
Tags
1755-1793 -- fiction , france -- history -- revolution , classics , 1789-1799 -- fiction , consort of louis xvi , marie antoinette , queen , king of france
ISBN
9781776532254
Date
1853-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.30 MB
Lang
en
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Known as one of the important early figures in the burgeoning genre of historical fiction, Alexandre Dumas spent much of his life chronicling the social and political unrest that utterly transformed France -- and by extension, the rest of the world -- in the eighteenth century. This sweeping epic focuses on several parallel plot lines, all leading up to the death by beheading of the king in 1793, marking him with the dubious distinction of being the only French king to be executed.