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If by chance you are referring to the King and Queen during the Second French Revolution then , Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were both publicly executed by beheading. The weapon was a guillotine which cuts the head off the victim with a heavy falling blade.

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Louis XVI was beheaded on January 21st 1793 and Marie Antoinette on October 16th 1793.

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