Marie Antoinette was known - and eventually beheaded - for her lavish spending. The last Queen of France and her husband, King Louis XVI met their untimely ends after squandering their vast ...

An impressively severe second feature by Italian director Gianluca Jodice, this is a brisk rejoinder to past cinematic portraits of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette that have rendered even their ...

Seen in turn as an icon of beauty, a controversial figure and a martyr, Marie-Antoinette, the last queen of the Ancien Régime ...

Marie Antoinette didn’t say let them eat cake ... was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start. In May 1789, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates-General, to try and find a solution ...

Louis XVI faced a clear choice ... Louis decided to escape with his spectacularly unpopular queen, Marie Antoinette. On the night of the 21st June 1791, the royal family sneaked away from Paris ...