Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake ... For this she was branded a traitor and sent to the guillotine on 3 November 1793. You might be under the impression that once King Louis XVI ...

The guillotine was first used during the French Revolution, with 16,000 people beheaded between 1793 and 1794, most notably King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.

The necklace containing around 300 carats of diamonds was bought by an unidentified woman who put in her bid over the phone, ...

Marie Antoinette was born in Austria in 1755 and sent to France to be the child bride of the future King Louis XVI. She died on the guillotine in 1793, a few months after her husband, having ...

A headless Marie Antoinette, to be more specific ... metal–opera–Cameron Mackintosh mash-up tribute to … the guillotine," featuring "decapitated faces painted clown-white [singing] the ...