was the site of many notable public executions, including those of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and Maximilien Robespierre in the course of the French...

Marie-Antoinette d'Autriche, reine de France, five-act tragedy 1793: La Mort de Louis XVI, three-act tragedy. 1795: Aux Mânes des neuf victimes d'Orléans. Chants funèbres...

rough landing to its passengers. In June 1784, the Gustave (a hot air balloon christened La Gustave in honour of King Gustav III of Sweden's visit to Lyon)...

that most photographers made them as a matter of course, including Oscar Gustave Rejlander and Julia Margaret Cameron. Lebailly continues that child nudes...

patronage to the Immaculate Conception was invoked on by the French Bishop Gustave Charles Mutel (1854–1933) on 29 May 1898. On 18 August 2014, Pope Francis presided...

1747, who gave birth to the next three Kings of France: Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, and Charles X). Louis XV's second son, the Duke of Anjou, was born in 1730...

born in this room: Philip V of Spain, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Louis XVII, Louis XVIII, and Charles X. The animals of the Menagerie, abandoned after the Revolution...

Gustave-Armand-Henri, comte de Reiset (13 July 1821 – 2 March 1905) was a French diplomat, writer and art collector. Born at Mont-Saint-Aignan, he was...

penitentiaries in the United States and proceeded there with his lifelong friend Gustave de Beaumont. While he did visit some prisons, Tocqueville traveled widely...

MEP (1869–1884) Marie-Jean-Gustave Blanc, MEP (1884–1890) Gustave-Charles-Marie Mutel, MEP (1890–1911) Gustave-Charles-Marie Mutel, MEP (1911–1933)...

1 (or Nieuport XVI C.1 in contemporary sources) was a French World War I single-seat sesquiplane fighter aircraft, designed by Gustave Delage as a development...

commissioned a new glass and iron building designed by Louis-Charles Boileau and Gustave Eiffel that opened in 1869 and became the model for the modern...

1794) Madame Élisabeth (May 10, 1794), sister of kings Louis XVI, Louis XVIII and Charles X François Hanriot (July 28, 1794) Maximilien Robespierre (July...

through paintings by French academic painters, from advertisements to Gustave Doré’s illustrations for Orlando Furioso. The iconography of putti is deliberately...

Palace of Versailles, Louis XV of France, Madame de Pompadour, Rococo, Louis XVI of France, Neoclassicism, Enlightenment, Gobelins. For art criticism, see...

Paris, France. The chapel was constructed on the grounds where King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette had been buried after they had been guillotined...

21 May – Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, engineer, scientist 1 August – Pierre Solomon Ségalas d'Etchépare, physician 9 August – Charles-François Lebœuf, sculptor...

the Tuileries Garden and massacre of Swiss Guards, 10 August 1792 Louis XVI makes his plea at his trial, in the Salle du Manège, or riding school in...

escape and reached Saxony, where he taught fencing. In 1781, King Louis XVI of France proclaimed an amnesty for deserters, so Augereau returned to his...

l'Yveline. In 1783, the château became the private property of King Louis XVI, who bought it from his cousin, Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre...

neo-Latin poet Paul de Casteljau, mathematician Gustave Courbet, painter Frank Darabont, filmmaker Charles Fourier, philosopher Salah Gaham, concierge Victor...

Gustave Louis Jaulmes (14 April 1873 – 7 January 1959) was an eclectic French artist who followed the neoclassical trend in the Art Deco movement. He...

career as a military officer serving France in the Royal Army of King Louis XVI, the Garde Nationale of the French Revolution, and the Grande Armée of Napoleon...

to King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, sculptures (1830) by Edme Gaulle and Pierre Petitot Ementrude of Orleans, wife of Charles II of France Bust...

1834) 1876 – Catherine Labouré, French nun and saint (b. 1806) 1877 – Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1819) 1888 – Samson Raphael...

would end violence throughout the country. She also believed that King Louis XVI should not have been executed.: 160  On 9 July 1793, Corday left her cousin...

Robespierre was executed in the Place de la Révolution, where King Louis XVI had been executed a year earlier. He was executed by guillotine, like the...

Russian poet and writer (A Hero of Our Time) Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) French poet (Les Fleurs du mal) Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (Madame...

Portuguese Expansion and the Writing of Africa. U of Minnesota Press. pp. xvi, 18. ISBN 978-0-8166-4832-0. Menocal, María Rosa (2002). Ornament of the...

originally intended for an equestrian statue by Jean-Pierre Cortot of Louis XVI, but the statue was destroyed during the July Revolution in 1830.[citation...