An early French Revolutionary song praising King Louis XVI, from when the revolution was still aimed at a constitutional monarchy
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Silver constitutional ecu of Louis XVI minted in Paris in 1793 [4032x3024] [OC]
I was reading the history of the French Revolution, and just found out what happened to Louis XVI ‘s head.
To what extent was Louis XVI the cause of the failure of the constitutional monarchy in revolutionary France.
The more I look at it the less I see Louis as the main cause. Just interested to know other thoughts.
Can Louis-XVI be blamed for the failure of France's constitutional monarchy?
I'm studying the french revolution and this seems to be a pretty major issue. Where does the blame lie for the failure of France's constitutional monarchy. A lot of historians discuss this but in a reasonably indirect way which brings me to my second question:
Are there any historians who deal with this question directly? I'd love to read a historian making an argument one way or the other rather than just going through the narrative of the revolution and subtly lacing it with their own opinions.
I'm having trouble untangling the factors and deciding what my own opinion is on this topic
thank you
During the French Revolution thousands of people met their end with the blade of the guillotine, including King Louis XVI
He should have quit while he was a head
TDIH: September 13, 1791, King Louis XVI of France accepts the new constitution. Illustration: Proclamation of the Constitution on the place du marché des Innocents.
10 May 1774: Louis XVI ascends to the throne upon the death of his grandfather Louis XV. He was the last monarch of the Ancien Régime and would be overthrown in the French Revolution.
The Last words of King Louis XVI
On this day 228 years ago, Louis XVI of France was guillotined for acts of treason and conspiracy against the french people and the first republic. While still regarded as a murder by some, it marked a turning point in the french revolution.
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A ring with locks of hair of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
After my last post about Caitlyn Jenner and the greed of her and her friends, I truly think that King Louis XVI would win the Republican nomination for President in a landslide.
The world's first automaton was assembled in the time of Louis XVI (in 1773), by the Swiss watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz, who took 20 months of hard work to do it. His name is "The Writing Boy", and at first glance he looks like a toy: he is a small wooden doll with a porcelain head.
Burial of King Louis XVI (Colourised, 1793)
January 21, 1793: King Louis XVI executed by the newly formed French Republic. A declaration of war on all aristocrats and monarchs across Europe. Long Live the French Revolution!
In the HBO miniseries "John Adams", Louis XVI is portrayed as at first being surprised and then completely amused by the fact that Adams could not speak French. Would the prospect of someone of Adams' social status or political importance not speaking French really be such an oddity?
I have attempted to find the scene in question on Youtube but alas I am unsuccessful.
Nevertheless, I am aware that up until the middle of the 20th Century, the French language occupied a role similar to the one English plays today. French was the language of academia, diplomacy and trade. However, the rise of English was aided by the concurrent rise of widely available media like movies and television. Needless to say, this was not the case in the 18th Century.
So would it really be all that strange for someone like John Adams to be unable to speak French? Perhaps Louis' reaction comes from the fact that it was specifically strange for someone sent to France as a diplomat to be unable to speak French but not necessarily people in Adams' position generally? Or maybe Louis never really interacted with people that couldn't speak French?
The Last words of King Louis XVI
Empress Eugénie had a huge fascination for Marie Antoinette and strongly identified with her, in this Winterhalter portrait “The Empress Eugénie à la Marie-Antoinette” we can see the combination of the second empire style and the Louis XVI style
"Complaine de Louis XVI" a song sung from the prospective of Louis XVI, the King of France that was mudered.
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What if Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette had actually made it across the border in their attempt to escape, and come under the safety of other royal states, including her Imperial Austrian family?
Fun Fact: The French Kings were protected by their very own regiment of Swiss Guards, the cent Suisse (the hundred Swiss). They acted as bodyguards and defended Louis XVI when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries. They were later re- employed during the Bourbon Restoration
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TIL that King Louis XVI was condemned to death by a majority of only 1 vote. Amongst those who voted in favor of the execution was the king's own cousin, Philippe Égalité, whom the king did not have positive relations with. Philippe himself would be guillotined on the same scaffold a year later.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou…
TIL about Charles-Henri Sanson who, as Master Executioner under King Louis XVI, was responsible for executing 2,918 people. In April of 1792, Sanson became the first executioner to use the guillotine: less than a year later, he would use it on King Louis XVI himself during the French Revolution.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha…
The world's first automaton was assembled in the time of Louis XVI (in 1773), by the Swiss watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz, who took 20 months of hard work to do it. His name is "The Writing Boy", and at first glance he looks like a toy: he is a small wooden doll with a porcelain head.
[1981] Miss Morrison's Ghosts - Supernatural television drama based on a book by two Oxford academics who claimed that in 1901, on a day trip to Versailles, they travelled back in time to the 18th century court of Louis XVI of France. Starring Hannah Gordon.
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TIL that during the French Revolution Marie Tussaud, founder of Madame Tussauds, made death masks of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and Robespierre using their severed heads.
nationalgeographic.com/tr…
Louis XVI? Never heard of him
The Execution of King Louis XVI, 1793 (Colorized)
King Louis XVI did nothing wrong, change my mind.
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Louis XVI the Headless?
Exec*tion of King Louis XVI of France (Circa 21 January 1793, colorized) (I don't know if anyone has done this before, it's been in my head for a while)
Marriage contract between French Dauphin (future Louis XVI) and Marie Antoinette, from 1770
Why did Austria not intervene during the execution of King Louis XVI?
Austria said if any harm comes to the royal family the revolutionaries will pay in blood, so then why did they allow him and the queen to both be sent to the Guillotine? Surely the news of his trial reached them.
Born today : August 25th - Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just, Military/Political Leader, "became a major leader of the government of the French First Republic", "spearheaded the movement to execute King Louis XVI and later drafted the radical French Constitution of 1793", "executed with Robespierre"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou…
David Roentgen's Automaton of Queen Marie Antoinette, The Dulcimer Player; King Louis XVI for his queen, Marie Antoinette, in 1784. Musée des arts et métiers de Paris.
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Louis XVI got a little too ahead of himself
Do you honestly think Louis XVI deserved to be killed ? I mean , yes , he wasn't a great king , but was it fair to kill him other than , you know , strip him of his power or something ?
"Hell Broke Loose or The Murder of Louis" - conservative British cartoon depicts demons attending the execution of King Louis XVI, United Kingdom, 1793
I was reading the history of the French Revolution, and just found out what happened to Louis XVI ‘s head.
I have been reading some history on the French revolution and found out what happened to Louis XVI's head
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