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.

The story of Marie Antoinette is well-known. During the French Revolution, the glamorous queen was guillotined alongside her husband, King Louis XVI. But what happened to Marie Antoinette’s ...

joining the most radical faction of the Revolution, changing his name to Philippe Equality, and voting in favor of the execution of King Louis XVI, who was his cousin. And yet, despite all this, he ...

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 ...

THE reign of Louis XVI will forever be associated with the French Revolution and the end of the Versailles’ royal era. Here's a look at the memorable rise and fall of the former French King.

The unruly ghost of the French Revolution—the bane of reactionaries ... right were born in the overthrow and eventual execution of Louis XVI, famously beheaded in 1793. For the left, the ...

Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and locksmithing ... the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants ...

The second revolution that engulfed France over ... which held all the eyes of Europe spellbound: Louis Capet, formerly King Louis XVI of France, was on trial for his very life.