where it was exhibited in her traveling shows along with other stars of the French Revolution whose death masks she had cast, including King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and Robespierre.

she was ordered to create death masks of the guillotined aristocrats of the former monarchy, including her onetime employers: King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Death masks date back to ancient ...

When King Louis XVI went to the guillotine after the French ... How exactly Louis met his death was also something of a mystery. According to some accounts, Louis was so terrified that he had ...

In France, a team of scientists says that a piece of cloth that was reputedly dipped in the blood of Louis XVI is genuine. Louis XVI was executed 220 years ago this month, during the French ...

The court of Louis XVI is stripped to a faded ... To the queen, her face an increasingly strained mask for her white-hot fury, they may as well have been cast into the wilderness.

The execution of Louis XVI on January 21 ... I pardon my enemies, and I desire that my death should serve the French people and appease the wrath of God.” It was a dramatic scene—many artists ...