Remember, Louis XVI was the last king of France before the revolution eliminated the monarchy; he was dethroned and executed in 1792, but the seeds of the revolution are being sowed here.

But courtiers at the Versailles palace tired of him—and here’s an exclusive look at the transcript of a meeting between King Louis XVI and Franklin: Louis XVI: “You want me to say really ...

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 ...

Far from home and only a mere teenager, her transition to the French way of life is met with many bumps, most notably her struggle to connect with her spouse and soon-to-be king, Louis XVI.

ST. LOUIS – Police are looking into calls for chaos on social media in the wake of Tuesday evening’s execution of 55-year-old Marcellus Williams at the state prison in Bonne Terre. Looting has ...

Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1833 ... Charles X’s brother had been Louis XVI, the last king of France before the Revolution. Lady Jane was a redolent reminder of Marie ...

Gianluca Jodice's Locarno opener revisits a much-filmed chapter of history with a de-frilled austerity that feels decidedly new. Such spectacle can have its own ironic purpose, as with the pointed ...

Mélanie Laurent is Marie Antoinette and Guillaume Canet her husband Louis XVI in Italian director Gianluca Jodice’s Le Déluge (The Flood), which opened the 77th edition of the Locarno Film ...

As Jha, an economist at Stanford, and Wilkinson, a University political scientist at Yale University, demonstrate in the study, the royal soldiers sent by French king Louis XVI to fight alongside ...

From revolution to reinvention Comparison on social media between Carrie Johnson and the ill-fated consort of King Louis XVI, executed by ... Antoinette memes and cartoons like the ones of Johnson ...

A man on death row in Florida for the 1989 killing of a couple was executed Wednesday evening, the Florida Department of Corrections said in a news release. Louis Gaskin was sentenced to death in ...