Season 2 takes place ten years into the reign of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, with people inside and outside Versailles ...

While King Louis XVI remained the nominal head of state ... Napoleon would eventually declare himself "Emperor of the French." John Adams had feared just such a chaotic end: A revolution of ...

The court of Louis XVI is stripped to a faded, festering husk of itself in "The Flood," a stark study of the king's last days in which the luxurious trappings of French monarchy disappear before ...

but the French Revolution 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 to France’s financial problems.

American forces depended on French arms, money ... s an exclusive look at the transcript of a meeting between King Louis XVI and Franklin: Louis XVI: “You want me to say really terrible things ...

This is a bronze, French 2 sols coin from 1792, which was the last year of Louis XVI's reign in France. King Louis XVI was executed by the guillotine in January 1793 after being founf guilty of ...