Louis XVI

New Orleans Magazine;  April 1, 1997 ;     399 words ...LOUIS XVI. 730 Bienville St., 581-7000. B and D...ACDMV For more than a quarter-century now, Louis XVI has maintained its position as the first...really are Creole - we can see clearly what Louis XVI is all about. The heart and soul of the...

(book reviews)

Canadian Journal of History;  December 1, 1993 ;     688 words ......opinion on the bicentennial of the death of Louis XVI showed that the modern French public...trend. Hardman offers a balanced study of Louis XVI's reign from the institutional and personal...utterly beyond salvation. Hardman charts Louis XVI's career from birth to death in three...

Who wore the royal trousers?

The Spectator;  November 16, 2002 ;     700+ words ......policies of two celebrated royal failures, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and of some of...former ambassador and minister, chosen by Louis XVI to co-ordinate resistance to the revolution...precise nature, both of the involvement of Louis XVI and of the political programme ...

1793 MONDAY 21 JANUARY

The Independent - London;  January 21, 2008 ;     26 words ...Louis XVI beheaded King Louis XVI of France was guillotined at the Place de la Revolution in Paris, having been found guilty of high treason and crimes against the state

The Execution of Louis XVI and the End of the French Monarchy.

History Review;  March 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......five months later, murmuring prayers. Louis XVI, condemned after a trial before the elected...by 20,000 of his former subjects, that Louis XVI met his end. Nobody was unaware of how...crown himself; and subsequently both Louis XVI's brothers and then one of his cousins...

(book review)

History: Review of New Books;  January 1, 2001 ;     545 words ...Hardman, John Louis XVI: The Silent King New York: Oxford University...all shades of political opinion on Louis XVI, who ascended the French throne at...of which subsequently disappeared. Louis XVI understood the Revolution better than...

Louis XVI style

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms;      68 words ...Louis XVI style A term that loosely refers to a decorative style that first emerged in France in the 1750s and was fully developed by the time Louis XVI ascended to the throne in 1774. Essentially it consisted of a preference...

The recapitation of Louis XVI. (bicentenary of beheading)

The Economist (US);  January 23, 1993 ;     432 words ......execution of France's last absolute monarch, Louis XVI, should not be similarly glossed over...same question: Was it necessary to kill Louis XVI? Another magazine carried a poll showing...Solemn Commemoration of the Bicentenary of Louis XVI's Death had hoped to hold its main ...

Revolutionary French Revolution Andrew Roberts considers the clandestine...

The Sunday Telegraph London;  July 21, 2002 ;     700+ words ...The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the Baron de Breteuil...the Bastille in July 1789 - after which Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were prisoners of...salvation. Breteuil's appointment as Louis XVI's chief minister on July 10, 1789, proved...

MONEY PEOPLE: KING-SIZED PROFIT; Cash in the attic.(Features)

The People (London, England);  May 21, 2006 ;     229 words ......evidence about the last hours of King Louis XVI in France. The letter, recently rediscovered...to Sanson's letter, the last words of Louis XVI were: I am innocent of everything of...Hammer in 1994. CAPTION(S): HISTORIC: Louis XVI & (inset) the letter with Sansom...

New York Auctions Suggest End of Louis XV-XVI Magic

International Herald Tribune;  May 24, 1997 ;     700+ words ......month when the magic of the Louis XV-Louis XVI decor, so long perceived by the Western...shows the suite of rooms furnished with Louis XVI seats where the works of Cezanne, Manet...walls in a vague attempt at suggesting Louis XVI paneling. It was all rather incongruous...

When the mob felled a monarch.(Review)

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  August 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ......BURLEIGH The Fall Of The French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette And The Baron De Breteuil...archival material to shed light on how Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette, vainly...mighty France laid a little low. Worse, Louis XVI's younger brothers, the Comtes de Provence...

Power Outage.(political fallacies of Charles I, Louis XVI, and Nicholas...

Canada and the World Backgrounder;  May 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......cost, to stand in its way Charles I, Louis XVI, and Nicholas II had one thing in common...heir. When he became king of France, Louis XVI was only 20 and said ... we are too young...probably wouldn't have helped because Louis XVI wasn't very bright. He preferred hunting...

Culture Minister defers export of a portrait of Louis XVI by...

M2 Presswire;  April 20, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Minister defers export of a portrait of Louis XVI by Antoine-Francois Callet in a frame...temporary export bar on a portrait of Louis XVI standing, wearing coronation robes, by...portrait is one of a series of portraits of Louis XVI by Antoine-Francois Callet (1741-1823...

Karl Lagerfeld Steps Off an 18th-Century Stage

International Herald Tribune;  May 2, 2000 ;     700+ words ......like a grand farewell to the Louis XV-Louis XVI age, its golden cherubs, its curlicues...Jean-Henri'') Riesener, to the pair of Louis XVI gilt bronze (ormolu) attributed to Pierre...sunburst that adorned the apron of a Louis XVI giltwood side table (say a console if...