Title: Off with their heads! 5 French Revolution executions that changed history
Headings: Off with their heads! 5 French Revolution executions that changed history
Off with their heads! 5 French Revolution executions that changed history
“Louis must die so that the nation may live.”
Maximilien Robespierre
King Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Jean Sylvain Bailly
The Drownings at Nantes
Maximilien Robespierre
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Content: Not all went to the iconic National Razor though, and not all are remembered by name or memorialised in the basilicas and history books. Let’s take a look at five executions of the French Revolution that changed history, so if you have an aversion to blades, look away now! GARD Pro Not Registered
King Louis XVI
When King Louis XVI went to the guillotine on 21st January 1793, a seismic shift occurred in the history of France. Some called the monarchy repressive, others misguided and still more saw tragic martyrs. Whatever your take on it, when the blade fell and ended the king’s life, the world seemed like a very different place. The people had spoken and their voices were deafening, enough was enough and the Ancien Régime was swept aside on a tide of Revolution. Marie Antoinette
This iconic queen followed her husband to the scaffold on 16th October 1793 after long months in prison. Kept from her family and with little comfort, her execution has become perhaps the defining moment of the Revolution when viewed from centuries away. Glamorous, wealthy, privileged and encompassing everything that symbolised the glittering palaces of Versailles, this Austrian lady has risen to the status of near-legend, a symbol of the old France that was violently pushed aside in favour of the new. Jean Sylvain Bailly
He may not be quite so famous as the executed king and queen, but Jean Sylvain Bailly’s death was an undeniably important moment.