As the 18th-century period drama returns for Marie Antoinette season 2, Marie and her husband, King Louis XVI (Louis ...

The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and locksmithing than governing, recognized that a crisis loomed.

The second season picks up the story ten years into the sudden reign of Louis XVI and Antoinette, who ascended to the throne as young adults after Louis XV’s sudden death. Now, we’re a few ...

This is a bronze, French 2 sols coin from 1792, which was the last year of Louis XVI's reign in France. King Louis XVI was executed by the guillotine in January 1793 after being founf guilty of ...

The Palace of Versailles was the principal residence of the French kings from the time of Louis XIV to Louis XVI. Embellished by several generations of architects, sculptors, decorators and landscape ...

In the late 1700s, the King of France, Louis XVI, ruled with absolute power over his people. This was a country in which the rich powerful aristocracy and the church enjoyed endless privileges ...