Execution of Louis XVI
January 21, 1793
At 10:22 on a cold Paris morning, Louis Capet - once Louis XVI of France and Navarre - climbed the Revolutionary scaffold in the Place de la Révolution. He tried to speak; the drums drowned him. Sanson dropped the blade. A guard displayed the head. European monarchies went into shock.
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