whose family kept it for generations On This Day in History Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common ...

Only two of the French royals’ four children outlived ... Six years later, during the 1830 Revolution, her husband briefly became King Louis XIX when his father abdicated. Like her mother ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...