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Louis XVI and his family being transferred to the Temple Prison on 13 August 1792. Engraving by Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, 1792.. Following the attack on the Tuileries Palace during the insurrection of 10 August 1792, King Louis XVI was imprisoned at the Temple Prison in Paris, along with his wife Marie Antoinette, their two children and his younger sister Élisabeth.
French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution (1 C, 146 P) Pages in category "People executed by guillotine during the French Revolution" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (French: [ʒozɛf iɲas ɡijɔtɛ̃]; 28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France, as a less painful method of execution than existing methods.
The guillotine was placed on top of a scaffold outside the Hôtel de Ville in the Place de Grève, where public executions had been held during the reign of King Louis XV. Pierre Louis Roederer , thinking that a large number of people would come to see the first-ever public execution-by-guillotine, thought that there might be difficulty in ...
Pages in category "French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution" The following 146 pages are in this category, out of 146 total.
People executed by guillotine during the French Revolution (1 C, 26 P) Pages in category "People executed by France by guillotine" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
What we know about victims of Texas outlet mall shooting. Texas mall gunman carried eight firearms to mass shooting, police confirm. Thursday 11 May 2023 00:00, Ariana Baio. The gunman who killed ...
Between his arrest and his execution, Robespierre may have tried to commit suicide by shooting himself, although the bullet wound he sustained, whatever its origin, only shattered his jaw. Alternatively, he may have been shot by the gendarme Charles-André Merda. A change in orientation might explain how Robespierre, sitting in a chair, got ...