Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations and Maps vi
4. Preface x
5. 1. A Dark and Difficult Childhood 1
6. 2. Youth on the Throne 40
7. 3. The Bright Beginning, 1774–76 64
8. 4. Drift Towards War, 1776–78 101
9. 5. American Liberty and Royal Debt, 1778–82 135
10. 6. The Embarrassments of Peace, 1783–85 181
11. 7. Unravelling, 1785–86 199
12. 8. Royal Revolution: The Assembly of Notables of 1787 230
13. 9. The Road to the Estates- General, May 1787–May 1789 274
14. 10. The Silent King and the Third Estate 304
15. 11. The Invasion of a Palace 334
16. 12. The Revolution Caricatures Itself, October 1789–June 1791 351
17. 13. The Flight to Montmédy 370
18. 14. Playing by the Book of the Constitution, 13 September 1791– 10 August 1792 406
19. 15. The Prisoner in the Temple 427
20. Genealogies 448
21. Notes 450
22. Bibliography 478
23. Index 488