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Title Regicide and revolution : speeches at the trial of Louis XVI / edited with an introduction by Michael Walzer ; translated by Marian Rothstein
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [1992]
©1992

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Description xiii, 257 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Preface to the Morningside Edition -- Preface to the Original Edition -- Translator's Preface -- Regicide and Revolution. 1. Two Kinds of Regicide. 2. The Old Regime. 3. The King and the Law. 4. The Revolutionary Argument. 5. A Defense of the Trial and Execution of Louis XVI -- The Speeches. 1. Maihle: 7 November 1792. 2. Morisson: 13 November 1792. 3. Saint-Just: 13 November 1792. 4. Paine: 21 November 1792. 5. Robespierre: 3 December 1792. 6. Condorcet: 3 December 1792. 7. Marat: 3 December 1792. 8. Saint-Just: 27 December 1792. 9. Robespierre: 28 December 1792. 10. Vergniaud: 31 December 1792. 11. Paine: 7 January 1793 -- App. 1. Revolutionary justice / Ferenc Feher -- App. 2. The King's Trial and the Political Culture of the Revolution / Michael Walzer -- App. 3. Excerpts from the Constitution of 1791
Notes Originally published: 1974
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
Louis, King of France XVI, 1754-1793
Monarchy -- France.
Regicide.
Regicides.
SUBJECT France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051319
Genre/Form Biographies.
Author Walzer, Michael.
LC no. 92039235
ISBN 0231082584 (cloth)
0231082592 (paper)