When the King Took Flight

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When the King Took Flight is written by Timothy Tackett and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674257022 (ISBN 10) and 9780674257023 (ISBN 13).

On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a group of citizens a few miles from Belgium and forced to return to Paris. Two years later they would both die at the guillotine. Tackett recounts this story in gripping novelistic style.