Their previous ownership of island colonies in the Caribbean builds connective tissue with the Compte De Vaublanc's ownership ... hand in sentencing Louis XVI to execution, arguing for progressive ...

Madame Tussauds, now a global wax museum brand, has its roots in the French Revolution, where Marie Tussaud crafted death ...

33. Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI were both guillotined on the Place de La Concorde. The guillotine was invented by the French and it was the method of execution used by the French until the ...

Louis XVI, eager to seed his sublime Château de Rambouillet with the flora of ... That spring, Europe was a tinderbox. The king’s execution united other monarchs against the French Republic ...

The lands the Capetian kings controlled would eventually expand far beyond the family territory of the Île-de-France, to embrace the principalities ... of the dynasty via the male line. In 1793, Louis ...

The British ambassador to Paris wrote: ‘On … the eve of the anniversary of Louis XVI’s execution, General de Gaulle cut off his own head and passed into the shadow-land of politics.’ In 1958 he was ...

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

The execution last week of Jessie Hoffman Jr. marked the end of a 15-year-long stretch in which the death penalty was on the books in Louisiana but not carried out. It also marked the beginning ...

Previous prime ministers have effectively utilised various cabinet members to drive the execution of their key projects through their roles on the Finance and General Purpose Cabinet subcommittee.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court on Monday rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad later this week for the ambush killing ...