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Luis XVI de Francia (en francés: Louis XVI; Versalles, 23 de agosto de 1754- París, 21 de enero de 1793) fue rey de Francia y de Navarra 1 entre 1774 y 1791, copríncipe de Andorra entre 1774 y 1793 y rey de los franceses 4 entre 1791 y 1792. 3 Fue el último monarca antes de la caída de la monarquía por la Revolución francesa, así como el ú...
Louis XVI (Louis Auguste; French: [lwi sɛːz]; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. The son of Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–1765) (son and heir-apparent of King Louis XV), and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Louis became the new Dauphin when his ...
Louis XV o Fraunce. Louis XV (15 Februar 1710 – 10 Mey 1774), kent as Louis the beloved ( Louis le bien aimé) wis a monarch o the Hoose o Bourbon who ruled as Keeng o Fraunce an Navarre frae 1 September 1715 till his daith. He succeeded his great-grandfaither Louis XIV at the age o five.
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The convention's unanimous declaration of a French Republic on 21 September 1792 left the fate of the former king open to debate. A commission was established to examine the evidence against him while the convention's Legislation Committee considered legal aspects of any future trial. On 13 November Robespierre stated in the Convention that a Const...
Louis XVI awoke early in the morning, being greeted by a host of people including Jacques Roux, who was appointed to report on the day's events by the Paris Commune. After dressing with the aid of his valet Jean-Baptiste Cléry, he went to meet with the non-juring Irish priest Henry Essex Edgeworth to make his confession. He heard his last Mass, ser...
After initially refusing to permit Sanson and his assistants to bind his hands together, Louis XVI relented when Sanson proposed to use his handkerchief instead of rope.[citation needed] The executioner's men cut the former king's hair, removed his shirt's collar, and followed him up the scaffold. Upon the platform, Louis proclaimed his innocence t...
Henry Essex Edgeworth
Edgeworth, Louis' Irish confessor, wrote in his memoirs:
Press of the day
The 13 February issue of the Thermomètre du jour ('Daily Thermometer'), a moderate Republican newspaper, described the King as shouting "I am lost!", citing as its source the executioner, Charles-Henri Sanson.[citation needed]
Charles-Henri Sanson
The executioner Charles-Henri Sansonresponded to the story by offering his own version of events in a letter dated 20 February 1793. The account of Sanson states: In his letter, published along with its French mistakes in the Thermomètreof Thursday, 21 February 1793, Sanson emphasises that the King "bore all this with a composure and a firmness which has surprised us all. I remained strongly convinced that he derived this firmness from the principles of the religion by which he seemed penetra...
A popular but apocryphal legend holds that as soon as the guillotine fell, an anonymous Freemason leaped on the scaffolding, plunged his hand into the blood, splashed drips of it onto the crown, and shouted, "Jacques de Molay, tu es vengé!" (usually translated as, "Jacques de Molay, thou art avenged"). De Molay (died 1314), the last Grand Master of...
The body of Louis XVI was immediately transported to the old Church of the Madeleine (demolished in 1799), since the legislation in force forbade burial of his remains beside those of his father, the Dauphin Louis de France, at Sens. Two curates who had sworn fealty to the Revolution held a short memorial service at the church. One of them, Damoure...
The area where Louis XVI and later (16 October 1793) Marie Antoinette were buried, in the cemetery of the Church of the Madeleine, is today the "Square Louis XVI" greenspace, containing the classically self-effacing Expiatory Chapel completed in 1826 during the reign of Louis' youngest brother Charles X. The crypt altar stands above the exact spot ...
Hugo, Victor, The Memoirs of Victor Hugo(1899)Thompson, J.M., English Witnesses of the French Revolution(1938)Louis XVI (Louis Auguste; 23 August 1754 – 21 Januar 1793) wis King o Fraunce an Navarre frae 1774 till 1791, efter which he wis subsequently Keeng o the French frae 1791 tae 1792, afore his deposeetion an execution during the French Revolution.
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