Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals Teresa Nowakowski Some of the gems may have featured ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants were starving and didn’t have enough bread, she exclaimed “Let ...

In the late 1700s, the King of France, Louis XVI, ruled with absolute power over his people. This was a country in which the rich powerful aristocracy and the church enjoyed endless privileges ...