Otherwise he would have shat his pants
He was a threat to the Revolution as long as he was alive.
the execution of Louis XVI
Most of them probably didn't notice because of all that was going on during revolution. Would it have affected you?
Place de la Revolution (now called Place de la Concorde), Paris.
No. The revolution had already begun with the storming of the Bastille at 14 July 1789 and the Tennis Court Oath that same year. Louis' death did mark the beginning of "the Terror", an extremely bloody and murderous period during the French revolution.
James Madison's draft of the Bill of Rights -Apex
The execution of Louis XVI by means of the guillotine took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Révolution ("Revolution Square", formerly Place Louis XV, and renamed Place de la Concorde in 1795) in Paris. It was a major event of the French Revolution.
They were executed on Place de la Revolution, now called Place de la Concorde in Paris.
After the execution of Louis XVI she was called widow Capet.
Louis XVI was executed by guillotine in 1793 during the French Revolution for treason against the state. He was accused of conspiring with foreign powers and counter-revolutionary factions to overthrow the French Republic and restore the monarchy. His execution marked the end of the Bourbon monarchy in France.
King Louis XIV (the fourteenth).
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