An impressively severe second feature by Italian director Gianluca Jodice, this is a brisk rejoinder to past cinematic portraits of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette that have rendered even their ...

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

Versailles, one of the grandest royal palaces in the world. In 1789, it was home to King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette. But everything was to change with the French Revolution, when the ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake ... was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution ...

Marie-Antoinette, who was born an Austrian archduchess, was the wife of Louis XVI, who was deposed by the French Revolution of 1789. "Let them eat cake," she is sometimes said to have responded when ...

Louis XVI faced a clear choice ... Louis decided to escape with his spectacularly unpopular queen, Marie Antoinette. On the night of the 21st June 1791, the royal family sneaked away from Paris ...