Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and ... one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants ...

About a hundred people died during the Storming ... pivotal events of the French Revolution. Over the 10 years of upheaval that followed, France would execute its king and queen—and countless ...

The second revolution ... foundations of French society. The trial would serve to proclaim the institution of the new regime; a ritualistic rebirth born of the death of the king.

In fact, most people executed during the French Revolution – and particularly in its perceived bloodiest era, the nine-month “Reign of Terror” between autumn 1793 and summer 1794 – were ...

In late 1789, during a discussion about reforming the French penal code ... proved to be an important symbol for the revolution. “The death of the king thus invested the guillotine with a ...

The French Revolution began at the ... system of government that placed the king at the top, nobility and clergy below him, and peasants below all. During the revolution, the government was ...