High-end auctions are famous for having rare collectibles, but sometimes the story behind the items up for bid can be as ...

Massive displays of pyrotechnics have been used for religious purposes and political ends. They delight crowds today much as ...

Louis Cunningham is part of the incredible ensemble cast of Marie Antoinette, the new PBS series that premieres on March 19. Louis stars as Louis XVI, who becomes King of France and Marie ...

Louis XVI was the final ruler of the European country before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution and was the only King of France ever to be executed, dying aged 38 in 1793.

Louis XVI gave us New World rebels his money, of course, during the Revolutionary War (though that, too, might have been a calculated move only meant to spite rival England).

It was June 11, 1775, and Louis XVI was crowned king of France in the city of Rheims. Married to Marie Antoinette, a strong woman with a passion for all things fashionable and self-indulgent ...

The statue of King Louis XVI that stood for decades in downtown Louisville before it was damaged during racial justice demonstrations in 2020 may get restored and reappear in the city.. But where ...

Local leaders in Louisville, Ky. are trying to figure out what to do with a statue of its namesake, King Louis XVI of France, nearly four years after it was moved into storage. The 200-year-old ...

A statue of King Louis XVI was being removed from its namesake city in Kentucky on Thursday over “public safety concerns” after it was repeatedly vandalized during protests in recent months ...