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

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 ... the Count of Provence ...

King Louis XVI ordered 12 stone baths to be built in 1784 on the Soufriere Estate, a stunning 2,000-acre plantation. The estate fell into disarray over the centuries, the baths and surrounding ...

In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution to France’s financial problems. It brought together 1200 delegates from the clergy (the First ...

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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 ...

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 ...