The Marriage That Wasn't
On 16 May 1770, Marie Antoinette and Louis-Auguste married at Versailles. She was 14, he was 15, and they would fail to consummate the marriage for the next seven years. The consequences were not nothing.
Louis XVI
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The Day France Killed Its King
On 21 January 1793, Louis XVI was executed at the Place de la Révolution. The vote for his death passed by 361 to 319 - a margin of forty-two deputies. What followed made the king look like the easy part.