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French Revolution
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French Revolution
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Thursday, 4 October 2018
The death of Olympe de Gouges
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Olympe de Gouges lost her head to the guillotine on 3 rd November 1793. Her mistake had been to question whether the French Revolutio...
Sunday, 17 April 2016
Jean-Henri Riesener, cabinet-maker to King Louis XVI
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Jean-Henri Riesener was one of the finest cabinet-makers of his age, which, unfortunately for him, coincided with the French Revoluti...
Sunday, 3 January 2016
The death of Marie Antoinette
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On 16 th October 1793 the former Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, met her end at the age of 37 in what is now Paris’s Place de la ...
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