The Convention found King Louis XVI guilty of treason in 1792 and beheaded ... were not allowed lawyers for their defense during trial, that there would be no interrogation or evidence presented ...

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.

The elegant crescent-shaped building that still stands today was built largely in the 18th century after Jean-Frédéric invited his friend King Louis XVI to ... during the trial of Marie ...

Episode three of the programme takes a look around Versailles, the former home of Louis XVI and his wife Marie ... honourable’ for attempting to avoid trial on ‘technicality’ [INSIGHT ...

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 ...

The royal heart has been carted around Europe in a jar A royal funeral has been held in France for the co-called "lost Dauphin", the son of the beheaded king Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette. A ...

Rare, too, to hear Marie Antoinette, the Duchesse du Barry, Louis XVI, the Rothschild families ... before serving four months in pre-trial detention at the Osny prison, north of Paris.