King Louis XVI’s Death and Final Speech ... the former ruler gave one final speech before he was executed in which he proclaimed his innocence and concern for his former kingdom.

These were the last words spoken by Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, addressed to his executioner on the scaffold as the latter tried to remove his boots before guillotining ... and voting in favor ...

Click here to see engravings of the French Revolution by Hippolyte de la Charlerie, including Louis XVI At Prayer Before His Execution, The Royal Family's Last Farewell, and The Execution of Louis ...

The king wrote the "Declaration to all the French" the day before fleeing Paris in 1791 ... a historian and biographer of Louis XVI. "It is a key text for the history of Louis XVI's reign and ...

Louis XVI (pictured left below) was king of France from from 1791 to 1792, before his deposition and execution at the age of 38 (along with his wife Marie Antoinette) during the French Revolution.

King Louis XVI of France did not say a word as the carriage set off towards his place of execution ... power of Napoleon Bonaparte. Shortly before his assassination in 1801, Tsar Paul acceded ...

Louis XVI was executed 220 years ago this month, during the French Revolution. The handkerchief had been stored for years in an ornately decorated gourd, as Tia Ghose writes at Live Science.

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.