Smithsonian Magazine23d
On This Day in 1793, Revolutionaries Executed the King of France by Guillotine, a Deadly Machine They Saw as a Symbol of Equality
Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife ... Though the guillotine claimed the life of France’s king and queen, the majority of its estimated 15,000 to 17,000 victims ...
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Eleanor of Aquitaine (c.1122 – 1204)
That same year she married Louis, heir to Louis VI of France, who shortly afterwards became king as Louis VII. The couple had two daughters. In 1147, Eleanor accompanied her husband on the Second ...