Louis XVI was born in 1754 and died in 1793, when the rising tide of revolution swept him and Marie Antoinette from power and eventually to the guillotine. At his execution, legend had it that ...

Maximilien Bourdaloue dipped his handkerchief in the blood of Louis XVI after his decapitation.'" The recent DNA tests prove that the hanky does indeed contain Louis XVI's blood. Perhaps more ...

After Louis XVI's beheading, spectators dipped handkerchiefs in his blood A team of scientists have said they believe an old gourd contains the blood of French King Louis XVI. The monarch was ...

Two centuries after handkerchiefs were dipped in the blood of the beheaded French king Louis XVI, scientists believe ... the blood left at the scene of the decapitation. He is then believed ...

and voting in favor of the execution of King Louis XVI, who was his cousin. And yet, despite all this, he too lost his head eight months later, caught in the whirlwind of bloodshed. Louis Philippe’s ...

The squash reads, “On January 21, Maximilien Bourdaloue dipped his handkerchief in the blood of Louis XVI after his decapitation.” Monsieur Bourdaloue likely placed the fabric within the gourd ...

The execution of Louis XVI on January 21, 1793, is one of the French Revolution’s most iconic moments. That morning, the French king made his last procession to the Place de la Révolution.