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  1. origins.osu.edu › milestones › january-2018-execution-louis-xviThe Execution of Louis XVI | Origins

    By. Elizabeth Bond. On the cold, foggy morning of January 21, 1793—225 years ago—French King Louis XVI made the hour and a half journey through the city of Paris from the Temple, the fortified medieval monastery where he was imprisoned, to the Place de la Révolution, where the scaffold for his execution was assembled.

  2. Apr 2, 2014 · Royalty. Louis XVI was the last king of France (1774–92) in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789. He was married to Marie Antoinette and was executed for...

  3. Apr 16, 2024 · The execution of Louis XVI in 1793. (more) Despite the last-minute efforts of the Girondins to save him, Citizen Capet, as he was then called, was found guilty by the National Convention and condemned to death on January 18, 1793, by 387 votes (including 26 in favour of a debate on the possibility of postponing execution) to 334 (including 13 ...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Louis_XVILouis XVI - Wikipedia

    Louis was tried by the National Convention (self-instituted as a tribunal for the occasion), found guilty of high treason and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. Louis XVI was the only king of France ever to be executed, and his death brought an end to more than a thousand years of continuous French monarchy.

  5. December 1792. The trial began on 3 December. On 4 December the convention's president Bertrand Barère presented it with the fatal indictment (drafted by Jean-Baptiste Robert Lindet) and decreed the interrogation of Louis XVI.

  6. On January 20, 1793, the National Convention condemned Louis XVI to death, his execution scheduled for the next day. Louis spent that evening saying goodbye to his wife and children. The following day dawned cold and wet. Louis arose at five.

  7. Sep 5, 2022 · He was the only French king to be executed, his death marking the end of a thousand years of uninterrupted French monarchy. Early Life. The future Louis XVI of France was born on 23 August 1754 as Louis-Auguste de France in the palace of Versailles.

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