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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

But did the so-called 'Affair of the Diamond Necklace' really bring down the queen consort and her husband, King Louis XVI, and trigger the French Revolution? That is the question explored in ...

By the time Louis XVI’s reign began in 1774 ... and the event is now remembered as one of the pivotal events of the French Revolution. Over the 10 years of upheaval that followed, France ...