Going Too Far: The Downfall of Louis XVI
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Julia Osman, Professor Mississippi State and the Society of the Cincinnati’s 2008 Tyree-Lamb Fellow, discusses the Revolutionary War and Louis XVI’s role as America’s liberating king, which weakened his position as an absolute monarch. Dr. Osman also describes the escalation in the French Revolution from the pursuit of a constitutional monarchy, led by Lafayette, to a radical turmoil."