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Barnave: The Revolutionary who Lost his Head for Marie Antoinette
A major new biography of Antoine Barnavethe politician and writer who advocated for a constitutional monarchy in revolutionary France Antoine Barnave was one of the most influential statesmen in the early French Revolution. He was a didactic man of austere morals and vaulting ambition who dressed as an English dandy, running up considerable tailors bills. Before his execution at age thirty-two, he played a decisive role in revolutionary politics and even governed France in 1791 through a secret correspondence with Marie-Antoinette. In the first biography for more than a century, John Hardman traces Barnaves life from his youth in Dauphin to his role in the Constituent Assembly and his part in forming the Read more