It's a Republic, so there's no current royal family recognized by the French ... "It's complicated." The French Revolution, which began in 1789, put a temporary end to France's monarchy and ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake As the story goes, when Queen Marie Antoinette heard that the French peasants ... shortage and forcing the royal family back to Paris.

Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife ... Teresa Nowakowski Some of the gems may have featured in a royal scandal known as the "affair of the diamond necklace" that ...

Louis, like the monarchs before him, had spent vast fortunes on foreign wars but he hadn’t noticed the revolution brewing ... of the 21st June 1791, the royal family sneaked away from Paris ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution ... On June 20, 1791, Louis and his family, including his despised Austrian ...