HISTORY 202 Chapter 2: Sans Souci Revisited
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The three faces of sans souci provide numerous vantage points from which to examine the means and process of historical production. a. i. 1. They also provide us with a concrete example of the interplay between inequalities in the historical process and inequalities in the historical narrative, an interplay with starts long before the historian comes around. a. ii. The milot palace is a wreck where its walls were breached by civil war, neglect, and natural disasters. a. ii. 1. This started after christophe"s death because he had no political heir and no immediate successor eager and able to preserve his personal quarters. a. ii. 2. Christophe committed suicide during an uprising and the republicans who took over his kingdom had no wish to transform the palace into a monument. a. ii. 3. He is buried in his most famous construction, the. Citadel henry which is now a world heritage landmark not far from his palace. a. ii. 4.
