Everyone knows where the story of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI leads. Marie Antoinette Season 2 triggers “the ...

But she has no idea whom she can trust. Remember, Louis XVI was the last king of France before the revolution eliminated the monarchy; he was dethroned and executed in 1792, but the seeds of the ...

One of the best-known works of art at the New Orleans Museum of Art is a regal painting of Marie Antoinette. Painted in 1788 ...

Louis XVI: [shouting] “You’re gambling with the lives of millions. You’re gambling with another Seven Years’ War. What you’re doing is very disrespectful to France. Your people are dying.

Two experienced specialists are going on trial, accused of producing fake antique furniture they then sold for several ...

Royal memorabilia of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette and little Louis XVII always fetch high prices, as these relics of a bygone ...

Renowned French antiques expert has confessed to a multi-million euro fake furniture scam that started out as a joke.

A decade later, in January 1793, during a significantly different revolution in France itself, Louis XVI was paraded through Paris and beheaded. "Ten days later," notes the Mount Vernon website ...

Tocqueville answered the question “How bad can it get?” this way: “The most dangerous time for a bad government is usually ...