Smithsonian Magazine23h
On This Day in 1793, Revolutionaries Executed the King of France by Guillotine, a Deadly Machine They Saw as a Symbol of Equality
Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals ...
Time1mon
Books: King
When he died, at 60, he left a united France and a dynasty that lasted for 300 years. Louis XI was no picture-book king. He had “a long ugly nose . . . a pair of oblique eyes too deeply set ...
The New York Times28d
The Worst King of France.*
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