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 ...

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.

When King Louis XVI went to the guillotine after the French ... trying to establish whether a genuine memento of this momentous execution in the Place de la Revolution survives today.

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.