Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The execution of ...
The monarchy ended violently and dramatically with the beheading of King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette. The royal couple's two sons both died before reaching adulthood and their daughter ...
The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and locksmithing than governing, recognized that a crisis loomed.