New light is thrown on the nature of the French revolution and on the character and policies of Louis XVI, Napoleon I, Louis XVIII and Charles X, who led their courts through periods of unprecedented ...

The court of Louis XVI is stripped to a faded, festering husk of itself in "The Flood," a stark study of the king's last days in which the luxurious trappings of French monarchy disappear before ...

Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting and locksmithing ... of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where ...

free speech and fair courts. These were the ideals of the early French Revolution: liberté, égalité, fraternité. Louis XVI faced a clear choice. Could he accept equality and liberty for all ...