Should we go against King Louis XVI?

Sorry? I heard the question but I am not sure if I understood who asked it. Oh, I see, it is you, Your Highness! Do you plan to go against your brother? You want to use a popular insurrection to depose him and then quietly appropriate the throne? read more

In any other time, King Louis XVI would have been a perfectly forgettable monarch. But when people like him are thrust into situations like the unstable political situation of Revolutionary France, it doesn’t turn out too well. read more

You will never become King Philippe VII. Even if you abjure monarchy at all and proclaim yourself Philippe Egalité, you stand no chance. You will lose your head, Your Highness. read more

Scene from the trial of King Louis XVI before the National Convention in 1792. Louis was officially arrested on August 13, 1792 and sent to the Temple, an ancient Paris fortress used as a prison. On 21 September, the National Assembly declared France to be a republic and abolished the monarchy. read more