Execution of Louis XVI
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Louis XVI, former Bourbon King of France since the abolition of the monarchy, was publicly executed on 21 January 1793 during the French Revolution at the Place de la Révolution in Paris. At his trial
Day of 21 January 1793 – the death of Louis Capet at the Place de la Révolution, by Charles Monnet (1794)
Louis XVI and his family being transferred to the Temple Prison on 13 August 1792. Engraving by Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, 1792.
Louis stands trial before the Convention, as Robespierre watches from the first row. Engraving by Reinier Vinkeles, c. 1793–1796.
Dominique Joseph Garat announces the death sentence to Louis XVI on 20 January 1793, by Hippolyte de la Charlerie
Marie Antoinette
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Marie Antoinette was Queen of France as the wife of Louis XVI from 10 May 1774 until the abolition of the French monarchy in 1792 during the French Revolution.
Execution of Louis XVI
…country, who continued to alter French political and social structure radically over the next several years. Nine months after Louis's death, his wife Marie Antoinette, formerly queen of France, met her own death at the guillotine at the same location in Paris. Following the attack on the Tuileries Palace during the…
Marie-Antoinette à la Rose, 1783
Archduchess Maria Antonia c. 1762 by Jean-Étienne Liotard
Portrait by Martin van Meytens, c. 1767–1768
Archduchess Maria Antonia depicted at age 13 in a 1769 portrait by Joseph Ducreux, which was sent to the Palace of Versailles in May 1769