Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals ...

The story of the French Revolution is usually all about anarchy and destruction -- the storming of the Bastille and the execution of Marie Antoinette. ♪♪ But the revolutionaries were also keen ...

The royal couple was executed by guillotine in 1793 but France continues to be fascinated by Marie-Antoinette. Last year an exhibition at the Conciergerie, the former Paris prison where she was ...

Marie Antoinette was executed eight years later, following the execution of her husband, Louis XVI. Diamonds from the scandalous piece of jewelry were sold off, with one jeweler purchasing 350 of ...

The execution of Marie Antoinette, the death of Washington are events frozen on fragile, age-yellowed pages in Tidende’s library, where bound copies of the paper date back to 1749. That was the ...

He said he was disappointed that his mother couldn’t get the closure that Wednesday’s execution would have brought her. Antoinette Johnston died in February. During the clemency hearing ...

Stefan Zweig’s biography of Marie Antoinette is the source from which ... the unsuccessful escape to the border, the trials and execution of the rulers. Norma Shearer’s performance is lifted ...

Related: See the Stunning Pearl Brooch That Belonged to Marie-Antoinette and Is Now Up for ... cited as one incident that contributed to her execution in 1793. Wednesday's auction, hosted by ...