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 ...

It was June 11, 1775, and Louis XVI was crowned king of France in the city of Rheims. Married to Marie Antoinette, a strong woman with a passion for all things fashionable and self-indulgent, Louis ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The city of Louisville is gathering public input on what to do with the damaged King Louis XVI statue. The statue previously stood in downtown Louisville for decades until it ...

THE reign of Louis XVI will forever be associated with the French Revolution and the end of the Versailles’ royal era. Here's a look at the memorable rise and fall of the former French King. Louis XVI ...

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 ...

Two centuries after handkerchiefs were dipped in the blood of the beheaded French king Louis XVI, scientists believe they have proved one such rag kept as a revolutionary souvenir contains his ...

New genetic evidence casts further doubt on the authenticity of a grisly French relic: a gourd long believed to be stained with the blood of Louis XVI. Scientists sequenced the genome from dried blood ...

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 ...

A statue of King Louis XVI was being removed from its namesake city in Kentucky on Thursday over “public safety concerns” after it was repeatedly vandalized during protests in recent months, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – During the first night of protests in downtown Louisville, a protester broke the hand off of Louisville’s King Louis XVI statue, and now many are asking questions about it.

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