Louis XVI, King of France

Standard Name: Louis XVI,, King of France
Used Form: Lewis the Sixteenth

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ann Jebb
In 1789 and 1790, still in correspondence with Cartwright and also in letters to Thomas Brand Hollis , she discussed the issues involved in the Regency in Britain and the agreement between Louis XVI and...
Material Conditions of Writing Elizabeth Inchbald
Every One Has His Fault, a comedy by EI , opened at Covent Garden , after being postponed for a week for fear of coinciding with the guillotining of Louis XVI of France .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
5: 1516-17
O’Quinn, Daniel. “Bread: The Eruption and Interruption of Politics in Elizabeth Inchbald’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Every One Has His Fault</span&gt”;. European Romantic Review, Vol.
18
, No. 2, pp. 149-57.
O'Quinn 149
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Holford
Selima is a writing heroine: her poems are interspersed in the text, since as she says, As I grow sick or unhappy, I grow poetical.
Holford, Margaret. Selima; or, The Village Tale. Hookham; P. Broster.
2: 73
By midway in the last volume she is...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Harcourt
He was the opposite of his wife in one respect. In 1770 his father had said of him (in connection with letters): so great is his aversion to writing that without an absolute necessity he...
Material Conditions of Writing Anne Grant
After the guilloting of the French king Louis XVI , AG formulated an explicit statement of the political nature of female virtue, as she asserted the responsibility of (upper-class) women for the Revolution. I...
Literary Setting Catherine Gore
The title-page quotes Shakespeare 's Richard II about the deposing of a king. The novel opens with precision: at five o'clock on 22 June 1791, with aristocrats fearful for their fate in the aftermath of...
politics Grace Elliott
She smuggled the duc d'Orléans to his house by giving her name instead of his to those who challenged them. She went home on foot, then, hearing that many thought the duc would lead a...
Family and Intimate relationships Grace Elliott
GE 's relationship with the duc d'Orléans is known to her readers only from her account of him in the days when he had moved on to other women and was increasingly showing a sympathy...
Travel Frances Burney
FB bade farewell to her husband , as he left to ride out with the French king 's army against Napoleon , who was almost at the gates of Paris.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon.
357-9
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Burney
News of Louis XVI 's execution arrived a couple of days later. Within a week d'Arblay and his friend the comte de Narbonne were professing themselves ashamed of their nationality, while FB thought d'Arblay one...
Family and Intimate relationships Honoré de Balzac
For many years HB was romantically linked to Madame de Berny , a god-daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antionette . He was devastated by her death in 1836.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.

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