It started as a protest over the price of bread, but the women's march on Versailles ended up shaking the foundations of the French monarchy.

France was the powerhouse of Europe. It had the continent’s biggest population, a large overseas empire and had become the hub of the Enlightenment. But the country was to be transformed and engulfed ...

THE reign of Louis XVI will forever be associated with the French Revolution and the end of the Versailles’ royal era. Here's a look at the memorable rise and fall of the former French King.

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.

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 ...

Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and locksmithing ... of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where ...

formerly King Louis XVI of France, was on trial for his very life. A guilty verdict would undermine millennia of thought and tradition, ripping apart the longheld inviolability of the king ...

Gentlemen, I am innocent of everything of which I am accused,” said Louis XVI. “I hope that my blood may cement the good fortune of the French.” The former king died at 10:22 a.m. on the ...

unveiled the statue of King Louis XVI yesterday (July 17, 1967) morning.” Delmas said: “Let this statue say ‘No, the French have not changed. The French have not forgotten the Hills of ...