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Regicide and Revolution: Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI

Regicide and Revolution: Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI

Walzer, Michael
Rothstein, Marian

Hardcover

French HistoryGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0231082584
ISBN13: 9780231082587
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Mar 25 1993
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Maintaining that the trial and public execution of Louis XVI was an absolutely essential part of the French Revolution, Walzer discusses two types of regicide: the first, committed by would-be kings or their agents, left the monarchy's mystique and divine right intact, while the second was a revolutionary act intended to destroy it completely.

Walzer defends the trial and execution of Louis XVI as necessary, since it not only tried to destroy the monarchy's mystique and divine right, but also required the deputies to fully explain their guiding philosophies and applied the rules of judicial process to establish equality before the law.

New to this edition is an appendix containing Revolutionary Justice, Ferenc Feher's classic rebuttal to Walzer's thesis, and Walzer's response, The King's Trial and the Political Culture of the Revolution.

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