Parentage and ancestry
Youth on the throne
The bright beginning, 1774-76
Drift towards war, 1776-78
War and war finance, 1778-82
The embarrassments of peace,1783-85
Unravelling, 1785-86
Royal revolution: the Assembly of Notables of 1787
The road to the Estates-General, May 1787 to May 1789
The king and the Third Estate
The invasion of a palace
The revolution caricatures itself, October 1789 to June 1791
The flight to Montmedy
Playing by the Book of the Constitution, 13 September 1791 to 10 August 1792
The prisoner in the Temple.