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 ...

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Sa construction, qui débuta en 1775 sous le règne de Louis XVI, est la première grande réalisation d'architecture industrielle qui reflète l'idéal de progrès du siècle des Lumières. Ce vaste ouvrage ...

And, according to legend, the French queen's luscious locks turned white from stress the night before her execution in 1793 ... married Louis XVI in 1774, when she was 14 and the royal ...

At the end of our walk, we reached the Place de la Concorde, which is known as one of the places of execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution. Arc de Triomphe ...

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The man mistaken for a suicide bomber by police was shot eight times, an inquest into his death has heard. Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, was shot seven times in the head and once in the ...