Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife ... That morning, the French king made his last procession to the Place de la Révolution. An hour-and-a-half-long coach journey ...

The court of Louis XVI is stripped to a faded, festering husk of itself in "The Flood," a stark study of the king's last days in which the luxurious trappings of French monarchy disappear before ...

The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and locksmithing than governing, recognized that a crisis loomed.

In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution to France’s financial problems. It brought together 1200 delegates from the clergy (the First ...

The dramatic events around the French king Louis XVI and the French crises in the late 1700's with no will to pay taxes, which led Louis XVI into an impossible situation as a king.

America’s first armed conflict with a foreign nation following the American Revolution was not the War of 1812, but rather a ...

Far from home and only a mere teenager, her transition to the French way of life is met with many bumps, most notably her struggle to connect with her spouse and soon-to-be king, Louis XVI.

This is a bronze, French 2 sols coin from 1792, which was the last year of Louis XVI's reign in France. King Louis XVI was executed by the guillotine in January 1793 after being founf guilty of ...

Jan. 21 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1793, French King Louis XVI was executed in Paris, ending more than a thousand years of continuous French monarchy. Advertisement In 1861, Mississippi Sen.