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 ...

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.

Nine months after the execution of her husband, the former King Louis XVI of France, Marie Antoinette was sent to the guillotine on October 16, 1793. She was just 37 years old. It has been ...

Translation: Louis XVI, Louis XVI, we decapitated you; Macron, Macron, we can get you, too. The protest culture that arose in France in the turbulent final decades of the ancien régime has never ...

The statue of King Louis XVI that stood for decades in downtown ... who helped colonists win the Revolutionary War before his public beheading during the French Revolution, was constructed in ...