The experience, and failure, of Louis XVI's short-lived constitutional monarchy of 1789–92 deeply influenced the politics and course of the French Revolution.

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the be

A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers Louis XVI of France, who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution and

The first comprehensive study of the complex events and debates through which the 1789 French National Assembly became a sovereign body.