May saw the death of a retired U.S. Supreme Court justice who came the high court as a Republican but became a favorite among ...

French authorities have said two fans died and a police officer is in a coma after celebrations around the country erupted ...

French scientist Etienne-Emile Baulieu, known as the inventor of the abortion pill, died on Friday aged 98 at his home in Paris ...

It’s an irony of history that Trump’s love affair with Louis XIV may mean that this experiment will ultimately be continued ...

Marie Antoinette season 1 premiered on PBS on March 19, 2023, in the U.S. Created by Deborah Davis, the series follows the life of Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France before the French ...

The execution by guillotine of King Louis XVI of France on January 21, 1783. Eugen Weidmann on his arrest in Versailles for murder in 1937, was later executed by guillotine. The death of Eugen ...

Louis XVI: [shouting] “You’re gambling with the lives of millions. You’re gambling with another Seven Years’ War. What you’re doing is very disrespectful to France. Your people are dying.

thus becoming the head of the dynasty—one of the wealthiest in France. He was also the Prince du Sang or Prince of the Blood, second in line to the throne only behind the Count of Artois, the younger ...

The execution of Louis XVI on January ... about Louis’ death would ultimately become just as iconic as the revolution’s act of mob violence. The guillotine’s story in France had begun ...

And with her mother passing in the Season 1 finale, the question of how the the Queen of France will hold her ground in a politically polarized Versailles looms large. Louis XVI (played by Louis ...

News of the necklace and other extravagances continued to rile France even after Louis XV’s death, after which du ... wife of Louis XVI, of purchasing the necklace from a corrupt cardinal.

The Palace of Versailles, known as château de Versailles in French, is a paragon of Baroque architecture that once served as a royal residence and the de facto capital of France—but its ...