Name: What Ever Happened to the U.S. Congress's Portraits of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette?: Retracing the Events That Led to the Conflagration of the Capi (en Inglés)
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Author: Larkin, T. Lawrence
ISBN: 9781606181058

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What Ever Happened to the U.S. Congress's Portraits of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette?: Retracing the Events That Led to the Conflagration of the Capi (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

T. Lawrence Larkin

Editorial

American Philosophical Society Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

140

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781606181058

Categorías

Francia
Historia de europa

What Ever Happened to the U.S. Congress's Portraits of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette?: Retracing the Events That Led to the Conflagration of the Capi (en Inglés)

T. Lawrence Larkin (Autor) · American Philosophical Society Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "What Ever Happened to the U.S. Congress's Portraits of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette?: Retracing the Events That Led to the Conflagration of the Capi (en Inglés)"

A great unsolved mystery in American political culture is what became of the U.S. Congress's state portraits of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette during the British invasion of the Capitol, Wash., D.C., on the night of 24-25 August 1814. These were official full length images of the French monarchs arrayed in ceremonial magnificence. The fate of the royal portraits has been difficult to determine. Larkin undertakes a comprehensive examination to test two theories -- that the royal portraits were burned by British troops during their occupation of the capital or looted by American scavengers during the chaotic aftermath. He breaks new ground for the creating of an art and material history for the War of 1812. Illus.