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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.
Marcel André Henri Félix Petiot (17 January 1897 – 25 May 1946) was a French medical doctor and serial killer.He was convicted of multiple murders after the discovery of the remains of 23 people in the basement of his home in Paris during World War II.
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 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
Pages in category "French people executed by guillotine during the French Revolution" The following 146 pages are in this category, out of 146 total.
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 ...
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.
NBC News is publishing the names of over 1,800 unclaimed individuals sent to the University of North Texas Health Science Center to help families find answers.
Madeleine Cemetery [1] (in French known as Cimetière de la Madeleine) is a former cemetery in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and was one of the four cemeteries (the others being Errancis Cemetery, Picpus Cemetery and the Cemetery of Saint Margaret) used to dispose of the corpses of guillotine victims during the French Revolution.