That morning, the French king made his last procession to the Place de la Révolution. An hour-and-a-half-long coach journey through the streets of Paris brought the monarch to the guillotine and ...
Beheading people with the guillotine was the official means of capital punishment in France from the French Revolution until ...
The Martyrs of Compiègne, a group of 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, were canonised by Pope Francis on ...
On January 21, 1793, Louis XVI was marched to the guillotine. His severed head was ... Napoleon would eventually declare himself "Emperor of the French." John Adams had feared just such a chaotic ...
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