King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, were the last monarchs of France before the French Revolution of 1789 abolished the monarchy. In September 1792, the National Assembly voted to declare France a republic, thus ending the reign of Louis XVI. Both he and Marie Antoinette were sent...
The former King was brought to a trial and was found guilty of treason. On January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was guillotined in the Place de la Révolution. His wife, Marie Antoinette, suffered the same fate 9 months later.King Louis XVI WorksheetsThis is a fantastic bundle which includes every...
Louis was born on September 5, 1638 at Saint-Germain into the family of Louis XIII and his wife, Anne of Austria. On May 16, 1643, his father died and Louis became King of France at the age of five. The country was governed by his mother as regent and at the age of 17 he ruled...
Louis was the fourth son of the dauphin Louis, the son ofLouis XV, and received the title comte de Provence; after the death of his two elder brothers and the accession of his remaining elder brother asLouis XVIin 1774, he became heir presumptive. The birth of two sons to Louis XVI, ...
Upon his death, Louis XV's grandson assumed the throne as King Louis XVI (Louis XV's son, Louis, dauphin de France, had died in 1765, thus Louis XVI was the next heir in line to the throne). Louis XVI's wife, Marie Antoinette, became queen. The pair would feel the wrath of the...
King Louis XVI is a figure of great interest for history buffs, especially those who love a plot twist. He got off to a rocky start as a future king, marrying Marie Antoinette, another controversial figure, and assuming the throne unprepared at a young age. Little did he know that a ...
The same could not have been said by the harmless but lacking in assertion King Louis XVI, who was plunged into a situation that was not of his making. Nor by his maligned wife, Marie-Antoinette - she never said, the author tells us, "Let them eat cake" - whose final comforts were ...
Louis Charles d’Orléans, Count of Beaujolais (1779 – 1808) – unmarried At the onset of the French Revolution, Louis Philippe fled France to avoid likely execution, the fate of his father and other members of the French royal family includingKing Louis XVIandQueen Marie Antoinette. He trave...
Princess Luise (Dorothea Pauline Charlotte Fredericka Auguste) was the only daughter of Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and his first wife Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg Schwerin, daughter of Friedrich Franz I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. Sh...
A historical example of a scapegoat is Marie Antoinette, queen of Louis XVI of France, whom the people calledl’Autre-chienne—a pun playing onAutrichienne[Austrian woman] andautre chienne[other bitch]—and accused of being profligate and promiscuous. When the 14-year-old Marie Antoinette arriv...