The fates of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution are widely known. What happened to their ...

Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and ... one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants ...

In the late 1700s, the King of France ... These were the ideals of the early French Revolution: liberté, égalité, fraternité. Louis XVI faced a clear choice. Could he accept equality and ...

but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution to France’s financial problems.

Ahead, see where the ill-fated royal's precious gems ended up after the French Revolution. In 1772, King Louis XV commissioned a diamond necklace from Parisian jewelers Charles Auguste Boehmer and ...

the new installment finds Louis XVI taking on new challenges as a king, a husband, and a father, as the French Revolution looms nearer. French actor Maximilien Seweryn is among the new additions ...