Caricatures louis xvi biography summary
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The Execution of Louis XVI
On the cold, foggy morning of January 21, — years ago—French King Louis XVI made the hour and a half journey through the city of Paris from the Temple, the fortified medieval kloster where he was imprisoned, to the Place dem la Révolution, where the scaffold for his execution was assembled.
Portrait of Louis XVI, King of France and Navarre, c.
He traveled in the mayor's coach accompanied by his confessor, Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont, and bygd Lieutenant Lebrasse. The Paris Commune, the revolutionary municipal government, had stationed guards four deep along the coach's path, and the journey passed mostly in silence as Louis prayed. By 10 am, Louis’ coach arrived peacefully at the Place de la Révolution, where some twenty thousand people had gathered.
The coach approached the scaffold (which stood approximately where the Obelisk decorating the Place dem la Concorde stands today). Louis dismounted the carriage and removed his coat and collar. The
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Pictures from the French Revolution
Louis XVI and Old Regime France
Pictures were important during the French Revolution, from the grandly painted masterpieces which helped define revolutionary rule, to the basic drawings appearing in cheap pamphlets. This collection of pictures from the Revolution has been ordered and annotated to take you through the events.
Louis XVI and Old Regime France: the man illustrated in all his royal finery is Louis XVI, King of France. In theory he was the latest in a line of absolute monarchs; that is to say, kings with total power in their kingdoms. In practice there were many checks on his power, and the changing political and economic situation in France meant his regime continued to erode. A financial crisis, caused largely by involvement in the American Revolutionary War, meant Louis had to seek out new ways of financing his kingdom, and in desperation he called an old representative body: the Estates General.
The Tennis Court Oath
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Birth of Louis XVI of France
The baby was born at am in his parents’ apartments on the ground floor of the palace of Versailles after three hours of labour. The fashionable obstetrician Dr Jard had been summoned and a message sent to the baby’s grandfather, King Louis XV, who was at Choisy. Authoritative witnesses at a royal birth were essential, to forestall cynical whispers later, and the Chancellor and the Keeper of the Seals were both present. The new arrival was promptly baptised Louis-Auguste by the royal chaplain on duty and the king came riding in hotfoot from Choisy to see his new grandson and his daughter-in-law, of whom he was very fond. The King promptly created the baby Duc de Berry. Word was sent to Paris, where a few cannon boomed and bells rang for a bit and in the evening there was a brief fireworks display in the Place d’Armes.
No great fuss was made because there was no reason to suppose that Louis-Auguste would ever be king. He was the third son of the Da