Ambrogio A. Caiani is College and Departmental Lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall and at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.

'In this beautifully written study, Ambrogio A. Caiani paints a picture of a king increasingly adrift as the French Revolutionaries relentlessly stripped away the symbolic and ceremonial trappings surrounding him for most of his years on the throne. His analysis adds new depth to our understanding of Louis XVI's fatal alienation from the Revolution.' Bill Doyle, University of Bristol

• Introduction: Louis XVI, a constitutional monarch?; Part I. Inventing a Constitutional Monarchy: 1. The Maison du Roi at the twilight of the Ancien Régime; 2. The Liste Civile, the new monarchy, Sieyès and the constitution; 3. The court of the Tuileries 1789–92; Part II. Reform and Survival of the Ancien Régime: 4. The royal guard during the French Revolution; 5. Court presentations and the French Revolution; 6. The age of chivalry is gone?; 7. Louis XVI's chapel during the French Revolution; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Ambrogio A. Caiani is College and Departmental Lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall and at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.

'In this beautifully written study, Ambrogio A. Caiani paints a picture of a king increasingly adrift as the French Revolutionaries relentlessly stripped away the symbolic and ceremonial trappings surrounding him for most of his years on the throne. His analysis adds new depth to our understanding of Louis XVI's fatal alienation from the Revolution.' Bill Doyle, University of Bristol

• Introduction: Louis XVI, a constitutional monarch?; Part I. Inventing a Constitutional Monarchy: 1. The Maison du Roi at the twilight of the Ancien Régime; 2. The Liste Civile, the new monarchy, Sieyès and the constitution; 3. The court of the Tuileries 1789–92; Part II. Reform and Survival of the Ancien Régime: 4. The royal guard during the French Revolution; 5. Court presentations and the French Revolution; 6. The age of chivalry is gone?; 7. Louis XVI's chapel during the French Revolution; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Ambrogio A. Caiani is College and Departmental Lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall and at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.

'In this beautifully written study, Ambrogio A. Caiani paints a picture of a king increasingly adrift as the French Revolutionaries relentlessly stripped away the symbolic and ceremonial trappings surrounding him for most of his years on the throne. His analysis adds new depth to our understanding of Louis XVI's fatal alienation from the Revolution.' Bill Doyle, University of Bristol

• Introduction: Louis XVI, a constitutional monarch?; Part I. Inventing a Constitutional Monarchy: 1. The Maison du Roi at the twilight of the Ancien Régime; 2. The Liste Civile, the new monarchy, Sieyès and the constitution; 3. The court of the Tuileries 1789–92; Part II. Reform and Survival of the Ancien Régime: 4. The royal guard during the French Revolution; 5. Court presentations and the French Revolution; 6. The age of chivalry is gone?; 7. Louis XVI's chapel during the French Revolution; Conclusion; Bibliography.