The execution of Louis XVI on January 21, 1793, is one of the French Revolution’s most iconic moments. That morning, the French king made his last procession to the Place de la Révolution. An hour-and ...
A common rumor holds that Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the Frenchman who invented the guillotine, was also eventually executed with the device. But as the Dictionary of Eponyms notes, "Dr. Joseph ...
Forty years ago this week, France conducted its last execution by guillotine. A handsome Tunisian immigrant named Hamida Djandoubi was led to a bladed contraption and his head placed in the stock ...
Louis XVI, the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French revolution, was executed on Jan. 21, 1793, as citizen Louis Capet, having been stripped of his titles and honors.
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