Reconstructed from a single fabric sample and written archives, the recreation of the room and bed where the king slept alone ...

More than 200 years ago, France's King Louis XVI was killed (along with his wife, Marie Antoinette) via guillotine, and legend has it someone used a handkerchief to soak up the king's blood, then ...

More than 200 years ago, France's King Louis XVI was killed (along with his wife, Marie Antoinette) via guillotine, and legend has it someone used a handkerchief to soak up the king's blood, then ...

France was already in crisis, but Louis XVI kept making it worse. His failures on debt, reform, and political control helped ...

More than 200 years ago, France's King Louis XVI was killed (along with his wife, Marie Antoinette) via guillotine, and legend has it someone used a handkerchief to soak up the king's blood, then ...

Sick of taxes, a lack of rights and living in poverty, French revolutionists condemned Louis XVI to the guillotine on the morning of January 21, 1793. After a short but defiant speech and a menacing ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Members of Louisville Metro Council have filed a resolution asking Mayor Greg Fischer to repair and reinstall the statue of King Louis XVI on the corner of South Sixth and ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Standing where a statue of King Louis XVI once was, Chris Reitz said the piece is why he's stepping down as the city's Commission on Public Art (COPA) chair. He believes King Louis' ...

Local leaders in Louisville, Ky. are trying to figure out what to do with a statue of its namesake, King Louis XVI of France, nearly four years after it was moved into storage. The 200-year-old statue ...

In its latest contribution to historical anthropology, genetic sequencing has shown that a lavishly decorated gourd said to contain the blood of the French King Louis XVI does not, very likely, bear ...