Screams, terror and blood. On January 21, 1793, with the execution of Louis XVI (Versailles, 1754 - Paris, 1793), eight centuries of French monarchy were cut short in one day. The French Revolution had turned Paris into a theater of daily violence an...
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Imagine a crowd of Parisians on July 14, 1789 as they stormed the Bastille, a now almost disused prison. We then think of all that followed that event, which represented the ultimate breaking point between the people and the absolute monarchy, beginn...
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