LibGuides: Primary Sources: People: Louis XVI

Online Sources: Louis XVI, King of France

Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
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Items authored by Louis XVI in Ball State University's Digital Media Repository

A Journal of Occurences at the Temple, during the Confinement of Louis XVI, King of France by M. Cléry
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The Political and Confidential Correspondence of Lewis XVI, with Observations on each Letter. by Helen Maria Williams
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Private Memoirs of A. F. Bertrand de Moleville by A. F. Bertrand
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Minister of State, 1790-1791, relative to the last year of the Reign of Louis the Sixteenth
HathiTrust Digital Library
Regicide and Revolution: Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI by Michael Walzer
Call Number: DC137.08.W242 R3
ISBN: 0521203708
Translated by Marian Rothstein
The Ruin of a Princess by Marie-Thérèse Charlotte
Call Number: DC137.4.A593 R9
As Told by the Duchesse d'Angoulême, Madame Elizabeth, sister of Louis XVI, and Cléry, the King's Valet de Chambre,
literally translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. Illustrated with photogravures from the original paintings.
Also online UPenn Digital Library
Memoirs of the Abbé Edgeworth by Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Containing his narrative of the last hours of Louis XVI

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