num_pages: 425
description: To Revolutionary France and the rest of the world, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette presented a face of accommodation. They had to; they knew their lives depended upon it. Yet, they also realized that they were living on borrowed time, so they decided to act. Using their mysterious ambassador, Baron de Breteuil as go-between, they secretly tried to arrange an invasion of France by the Allied Powers. Through previously undiscovered documents, historian Munro Price sheds new light on the true motives of the royal family and provides answers to questions that have beguiled historians for centuries.
language: English
title: The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the baron de Breteuil
titlecomplete: The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the baron de Breteuil
characters: Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI of France, Le Tonnelier de Breteuil
genres: French Revolution, France, History
ratings_count: 28
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Hessell-Tiltman Prize
publisher: Pan Books