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.

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 ...

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 ...