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Hace 2 días · Louis was born at Versailles on 23 August 1754. In 1770, he married Marie Antoinette, daughter of the emperor and empress of Austria, a match intended to consolidate an alliance between France and ...
On January 21st 1793, the former king was carted to the guillotine and decapitated. The trial and execution of Louis XVI caused a sensation across France and around the world. Kings had been assassinated, overthrown and toppled by military defeat – but for a reigning monarch to be tried and executed in public by his own people was almost ...
By. Elizabeth Bond. On the cold, foggy morning of January 21, 1793—225 years ago—French King Louis XVI made the hour and a half journey through the city of Paris from the Temple, the fortified medieval monastery where he was imprisoned, to the Place de la Révolution, where the scaffold for his execution was assembled.
At the outset of the French Revolution, only a handful of citizens had even contemplated a republic. Yet only a few years later, in August 1792, Louis XVI was deposed, and the following year, revolutionaries executed him and Marie Antoinette. In this chapter, we explore how this transformation occurred in such a short time.
Hyperlink to collection website. Born at the Palace of Versailles in 1764, Élisabeth of France, known as Madame Élisabeth, was the youngest of Louis XVI ’s sisters. Orphaned at the age of three, she received an excellent education and revealed considerable talents in maths and science. Her contemporaries considered her a loyal companion ...
At only 36, Louis was taken to the guillotine on January 16, 1793, and executed before an enormous crowd. Marie Antoinette and her children remained in the Temple Tower for six months, before she was moved, alone to the Conciergerie, a prison. Her trial followed soon after, where she was charged with conspiracy against France.
Accused of a series of crimes that included conspiring with foreign powers against the security of France, Marie Antoinette was found guilty of high treason and executed on 16 October 1793. Written by Harrison W. Mark and read by Lianne Walker.
