Olivier Bétourné's new book La Mort du Roi Louis XVI devant ses juges et face à l'Histoire is published on 13th September.
Two centuries after the execution of Louis XVI, many Frenchmen still have their doubts. What verdict would they personally have given if they had been forced to pronounce in the case?
Olivier Bétourné presents the evidence for and against the King's guilt and confronts the modern dilemma: how can we accept our revulsion at the execution of the King, whilst still endorsing the logic which led him to the scaffold?
Sciences humaines | Editions Seuil
Olivier Bétourné is the former president of Editions Seuil and co-founder of the Institut histoire et lumières de la pensée
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