By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and locksmithing than governing, recognized ...

Let’s go back to when France and the new US signed a treaty ... an exclusive look at the transcript of a meeting between King Louis XVI and Franklin: Louis XVI: “You want me to say really ...

This is a bronze, French 2 sols coin from 1792, which was the last year of Louis XVI's reign in France. King Louis XVI was executed by the guillotine in January 1793 after being founf guilty of ...