The Heads Of The Executed French King And Queen 

Funny thing is that (Maximillion Robespierre) the biggest trouble maker who pushed for all the executions met the same fate about a year later.👍👍👍

It wasn't just supporters of the monarchy who lost their heads. The revolutionaries wound up killing many innocents and then their own.

It is ironic that Madame Tussaud nearly missed being guillotined herself! She was spared at the last minute.

I always found it interesting that Louis was sent to the scaffold in a carriage, whereas Marie was taken in a cart.

I feel I will soon get tired of leaving a true story about her under every video about Marie-Antoinette. All expenses of the queen, for the entire period of reign - about 7 million. livres (Napoleon's wife, Josephine, spent 6 million on herself PER YEAR!) Of these, about 3 million were spent on various outfits and entertainment, and other "Trianons". AND 3.2 MILLION LIVERS WAS SPENT ON CHARITY. For reference: the budget deficit of France, in 1789, was about 300 million livres. How much the queen was guilty of this shortage is easy to calculate ... Home "Antoinette's feature: The queen did not love cakes, and not even outfits. She loved children. Throughout France, with the money of the queen, orphanages and prototypes of the Children's Homes were opened (by the way, during the revolution, many of these shelters were closed, and children were simply thrown out into the street, into street children) The queen herself had several adopted children who were brought up on an equal footing with her relatives, as well as many scholarship holders, to whom she paid for education. She gave dowries to the girls. In the hungry winter of 1787, the queen not only gave all her personal savings to the parishes of Paris to help poor children (500 thousand livres), but also gutted the piggy bank of children (70 thousand livres), persuading them to refuse new outfits and gifts ... Philippe Huisman et Marguerite Jallut "Marie-Antoinette, le imposible bonheur" I beg you to stop taking information only from Wikipedia, or at least go to the French Wikipedia and take information there.

It was NOT Marie Antoinette's fault for any of the peoples low income problems, the French helped us, Americans with the revolution against Britain etc.

I have always loved this period of history but I fully believe the lavish lifestyles of those that ruled before these two played a very, very large role in the revolution and execution of these two. They were only products of their environments and at the end of the day most of the problems they faced were inherited and I feel so bad for the way their stories ended.

The French revolution had untold numbers of people executed..pretty dark times

Very shameful.

Excellent video! It never ceases to disgust me how evil people can be! Throughout history people would bring their families, lunches etc and watch peoples lives being taken! As in France, they carried white napkins to catch the blood of the executed! People can be so disgustingly evil

This video was amazing, interesting from start to finish 👏 thank you so much for posting so many great videos!

They murdered her. It's to their great shame.

Poor Marie. She didnt deserve that end.

Outstanding video and presentation.

The Monarchy was an outdated institution by the 1790's, but the mob violence perpetrated on the Royal Family was utterly appalling. They may have been naive and uninformed about the suffering of the peasants, but a lot of that was institutional. Anyone who has toured Versailles and the 'layers' you had to go through to visit the King and Queen can understand how isolated they were. The Monarchy was rightfully deposed, but their murders were bestial and unwarranted. As for Madame Tussaud, her story of taking a wax death mask of the Queen and King is hard to believe-probably more myth than truth. But the caricatures are close facsimilies.

The last execution by decapitation was in 1977 in France. And the last execution by firing squad was in 1962, for a high rank officer of the army. The last french Prime minister who was sentenced to death was executed by french firing squad a few months after end of WWII. The last public decapitation was in 1939. And the last public execution by several hours lasting horrific torture methods was in 18th century.

Louis XVI was the last absolute monarch of France, but actually I think Louis-Philippe was the last monarch of France, though not an absolute one. Thank you.

It would be interesting if you would have showed us their death mask

Marie -Antoinette was also very ill, had cancer and was bleeding the day she was executed.

I'm surprised that Austria allowed her to be killed. She was Austrian.

First you say he walked the breadth of the scaffold, yet later say he 'then left the carriage'. -- doesn't make sense.

So what changed for the French after Nopelean made himself Emperor, more deaths more poverty, I don't think he did much better, he got himself booted to an Island.

This very condensed account of the French Revolution doesn't take into account that France , during Louis XVI , was actually enjoying the most prosperous times France had known up to that point in time compared to other nations. According to historical accounts, after the slaughter of the nobility of France during The Reign of Terror , France suffered a huge catastrophic collapse of it's economy. It took France quite some time to recover from the communist-like revolution that was known to have been fomented by an elitist group of mercantile classed wealthy men. It amounted to a huge power grab by getting the French common populace to get into a frenzy of mob mentality. This type of mob mentality fomented by disinformation and rumors can be seen all through out history, the Soviet Proletariat revolution, Cambodia, etc and their end results ... The truth is that there will always be inequality and poverty, but the real question is are the powerful good stewards, or are they truly unjust? Any system run amuck becomes a plutocracy, oligarchy. King Louis apparently loved his subjects a bit too much? He utterly refused to use military force against the revolution mob, even though his commander of the guard insisted on this as the mob entered his courtyard. Apparently, huge transitions were taking place, the beginning Republic. This opened the door for the beginning of Socialist Republics. And we know the rest of the bureaucratic tale!

Throughout France many tombs and graves of royalty and nonles are empty. The bodies were removed and destroyed in various ways.

I know your voice and delivery. It has improved. Keep improving.

...and the French have NEVER recovered!

Read Nancy Mitford's book. The lavish royal banquets at versailles were open to the public. The facts are not always as common gossip portrays. Marie Antoinette was a good and fond mother and wife.

When the people have had enough, they've had enough. It can happen in the present day as well.

According to legend, as soon as the guillotine knife touched her naked neck, all the roses in the gardens of the Louvre, Versailles, Tuileries and Saint-Cloud withered, as if mourning their queen.

King Louis was basically a good man but the man should have known better. Surrounded by all those clerics at least one of them should have told him that his reign was a sad joke. His sin of omission caused his demise.

It is not French Revolution but Fanatic revolution

Wait wait ... I just watched this whole video hoping for a good look at the promised heads. But you only showed the heads briefly, in split-screen, in the first 8 seconds, and ... that was it? Gosh. The historical information was all very nice and well-presented, but I still feel like I've been click-baited. Mind you, I'm not morbid -- I didn't come here looking for gore. But I did want to see what the legendary Madame Tussaud did with the heads ... and I feel like I wasn't shown that, like, at all.

It’s so sad what they did to these two. They didn’t have to kill them. They could have exiled them. It’s so awful.

Why is the nose of Marie Antoinette different from all of her painting portraits to her death wax face!?

Louis XVI wasn’t actually the last King of France. There would be Louis XVIII and Charles X (his brothers) after the Restoration, as well as Louis-Philippe (the Citizen King, a cousin).

Sadly We know the truth and how shamelessly the King and Queen were treated after being arrested by the rabble! Both stayed dignified until the end. May they both rest in peace🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺

As an 8 year old on my first visit to London, my uncle took me to Madame Tussaud’s. I insisted we go into the Chamber of Horrors. What I saw has stayed with me…(including a guillotine depiction) and wasn’t surpassed until I visited the atom bomb museum in Hiroshima.

God restore the sacred Catholic Bourbon throne of France.

I was shocked to find out I'm blood related to King Louis the sixteenth. A considerable relation, meaning we have an ancestor in common. My grandfather was Dutch, and I find it interesting that there is a Netherlands connection there. Very interesting indeed. I'm from the UK, so naturally thought it was from the UK that the connection existed, however, this may now not be the case.

Very educational.

It's interesting that you mentioned that the royal couple tried to flee to Austrian Netherlands in 1791, this was known as the *Flight to Varennes.* The royal couple were arrested in the small town of Varennes-en-Argonne by the local postmaster Jean-Baptiste Drouet. He was alerted by a message from the neighbouring town of Sainte-Menehould when the royal couple stopped at the previous night and Louis tried to buy something at a shop. Louis was recognised by a merchant and then the merchant then alerted the authorities of there presence. Oddly enough, I know that region of France quite well because I have a lot of family who live in that area, from my mums side. Because of which, I'm half British and half French.

Both were victims of circumstances.

Marie is, like most women in history, blamed for things that she had no control over. I so wish that the world over would embrace these amazing women instead of villanize them. Vive la reina ❤

Where are the death masks now? I would have liked to see them. Don’t get how you make a video about the masks but don’t show them or tell us what happened to them or where they are.

You're not going to show me the heads that were casted?

19 minute video and only one or two seconds of the death masks. Where are they now? Are they on display somewhere? Any modern photos?

I've learned about the king's execution by playing AC Unity.

When they say ‘taken into custardy’ does it mean being dipped in custard?

This is a very interesting video. I wish to correct you on the pronunciation of "Vive la République" -- it is "vive" in French with a silent 'e', not "viva" as in Spanish.

Society based on heartless brutality is damned from the start. Greetings to USA, Russia, China and others.

Did the French really outlaw beheadings in the late 1970s?? 😮

Disgusting behavior fit for a disgusting government system we still have today.

you should have included images of the death masks

I was surprised to learn that Louis XVI and I are distant cousins.

But where is the head?

It will never be herstory, it will always be history.

You can’t throw a lavish food party with bread. When the people you rule over are severely starving and poor. A huge slap in the face. Boasting over what you have in front of those who don’t.

Amen 🙏

Famous phrase of the queen:Let them eat cake.

what are the marks on the face?

W O W it’s almost you were there . . . .

Things like this will happen in America before long.

These monarchs were actually noble and did not deserve this at all.

The same is happing here now the poor are staving and the Royals and MPs are living in luxury.

Be headed..

symbolism matters, if your people starve you ought to both tighten your own belt and seek to alleviate some of their suffering. instead she just kept living her lavish lifestyle

Shame they don’t treat the current british Monarchy the same.

The queens head is shown with long hair. I'm quite sure that her hair was cut off before the execution. But maybe it was on purpose to make her head look nicer.

She was The foreigner. The ppl of france did not respect foreigners.

God bless you all ❤

To think there must of been family hairlooms of the bloody rags of the last king of France.

R.I.P.

i have also seen the head of rebespierre...

Reign of terror not only the sovereignty executed also nobles even revolutionaries common criminals

Its not the history , what happened is done . Regardless of wether the victims deserved it or not Its just hard to believe how many actually justify and rationalize a bloody gory stone age justice .

Where was any discussion of what the death masks looked like?

What happened to their children?

Interesting

E assim morreu a França!

She never said let them eat cake. They hated her from the beginning. For nothing. See Volhov's comment.. Ask Benjamin Franklin what the French financed.

is it interesting that the word "scapegoat" has a completely opposite meaning today than it had back in Biblical times?? the origin of the word is that the scapegoat was the goat that was let go free without blame into the woods. today scapegoat equals the same as sacrifice.

Her mouth and eyes where half opened after decapitation.

If you, a British person, are going to talk about French people, please learn to pronounce their names and other french words properly. There are too many errors to list.

I once wondered why the cut the heads off of the King and Queen; after all they had already been deposed. What pissed off the French that much. Then I visited Versailles. It was all clear after that.

There is a lot of misinformation/myths within this video. Nice :-(

K first of all why would you show a photo of a king and queens head after being cut off I can see the blood

Poor Louis and Antionette. They were kids. They helped us during the Americaan Revolution.

It’s pronounced GEE-YUH-TEEN. The Ls are pronounced as a “y”. Just thought you should know :)

Article about casts of the heads of the king and queen. Where are the normal images of these masks? I would like to see it in detail

"One of the most shocking moments in history"!? Really? Because they were royalty? What a blind view of history!

D’un niveau….assez désolant

wow i never thought that french in the past are bloodthirsty croissants.

Moral of the story ? Don't lose your head over a diamond necklace.

The title of this mini documentary is misleading. At no point are we shown the heads as made from the plaster casts by Toussaud after the executions. The narrator even says, “here is the head “ for both the king and queen, and we see no such thing. Disappointing.

??? and Queen? whaTs up? no one wanTed To kill me

9:19 Louis XVI was NOT the last king of France.

So that’s where the head of the state came from

louie such a fine name

The Queen of France has enormous "soft power" and could have had an enormous impact on the crisis and she should have done. I cannot consider her an innocent victim of the chaos that ensued. There was much she could have and should have done even as a "first lady" of France. If nothing else she had great influence at court.

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