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 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.

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 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 French Revolution is a landmark period ... Many politicians suspected that Louis XVI was sabotaging the revolution, and he was imprisoned in August. With his arrest, the constitutional ...

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

The unruly ghost of the French Revolution—the bane of reactionaries ... right were born in the overthrow and eventual execution of Louis XVI, famously beheaded in 1793. For the left, the ...

The second revolution that engulfed France over ... which held all the eyes of Europe spellbound: Louis Capet, formerly King Louis XVI of France, was on trial for his very life.

Mathematician and author, the Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) was an aristocrat who nevertheless embraced the early stage of the French Revolution ... putting King Louis XVI to death—he ...