Laurent Hazgui/Divergence Almost ten years after the start of a criminal investigation into the trafficking of forged seats presented as Louis XVI royal furniture, the French furniture expert Bill ...

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 ...

But did the so-called 'Affair of the Diamond Necklace' really bring down the queen consort and her husband, King Louis XVI, and trigger the French Revolution? That is the question explored in ...

But in the basement workshop beneath his elegant showroom, ordinary pieces of furniture were allegedly ... in 2016 on suspicion of selling fake Louis XVI chairs to the Palace of Versailles.

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 ...

Two pieces of furniture that belonged to the French queen Marie Antoinette are ... shortly after she arrived in France and before she wed Louis XVI. The chair was the last order the queen ever ...

The execution of Louis XVI on January 21, 1793, is one of the French Revolution’s most iconic moments. That morning, the French king made his last procession to the Place de la Révolution.

As Jha, an economist at Stanford, and Wilkinson, a University political scientist at Yale University, demonstrate in the study, the royal soldiers sent by French king Louis XVI to fight alongside ...

Drawn from the diaries of Louis XVI’s personal valet Jean-Baptiste ... In the single grand hall where they are to collectively live, rococo furniture is haphazardly assembled in a crude diorama ...