http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:02:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-16894 ExecutedToday.com » 1314: Jacques de Molay, last Templar Grand Master Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:47:10 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-16894 [...] the French crown since then to Molay’s anathema. There’s a legend that an onlooker at Louis XVI’s execution dipped his handkerchief in Citizen Capet’s Sang Real and cried out, [...] [...] the French crown since then to Molay’s anathema. There’s a legend that an onlooker at Louis XVI’s execution dipped his handkerchief in Citizen Capet’s Sang Real and cried out, [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-13660 ExecutedToday.com » 1661: Thomas Venner and the Fifth Monarchy Men Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:28:08 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-13660 [...] happened to be scriptural.* They would hardly be the last to foretell a golden age made ready by the slaying of a king, not by a long [...] [...] happened to be scriptural.* They would hardly be the last to foretell a golden age made ready by the slaying of a king, not by a long [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-11841 ExecutedToday.com » 1789: The murderers of the baker Francois Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:20:25 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-11841 [...] a calamitous bread shortage, which in turn helped stir the Revolutionary pot. The mob that invaded Louis XVI’s palace a couple of weeks before had celebrated his return to Paris singing “We Have [...] [...] a calamitous bread shortage, which in turn helped stir the Revolutionary pot. The mob that invaded Louis XVI’s palace a couple of weeks before had celebrated his return to Paris singing “We Have [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-6364 ExecutedToday.com » 1792: Nicolas Pelletier, Madame Guillotine’s first kiss Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:28:06 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-6364 [...] 25th, 2008 Headsman On this date in 1792 — a surprisingly late date, just nine months before the king himself would die under its blade — debuted the iconic symbol of the French Revolution, the [...] [...] 25th, 2008 Headsman On this date in 1792 — a surprisingly late date, just nine months before the king himself would die under its blade — debuted the iconic symbol of the French Revolution, the [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-6150 ExecutedToday.com » 1864: Doctor Edmond-Désiré Couty de la Pommerais, poisoner Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:58:20 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-6150 [...] peering up so eagerly, were descendants of those who stood on the Place de la Concorde to witness the head of a king roll into the common basket. Imagine two tall, straight timbers, a foot apart, rising fifteen feet [...] [...] peering up so eagerly, were descendants of those who stood on the Place de la Concorde to witness the head of a king roll into the common basket. Imagine two tall, straight timbers, a foot apart, rising fifteen feet [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-3468 ExecutedToday.com » 1795: Unspecified Robespierrists Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:08:11 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-3468 [...] In “An Episode Under the Terror”, a mysterious man appears to a priest in hiding and prevails upon him to say a secret mass for the recently executed Louis XVI. [...] [...] In “An Episode Under the Terror”, a mysterious man appears to a priest in hiding and prevails upon him to say a secret mass for the recently executed Louis XVI. [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-3158 ExecutedToday.com » 1822: Four Sergeants of La Rochelle Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:43:30 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/01/21/1793-louis-xvi/#comment-3158 [...] the Restoration following Napoleon, the cautious gouty brother of the Revolution’s most famous guillotinee came to the throne as Louis [...] [...] the Restoration following Napoleon, the cautious gouty brother of the Revolution’s most famous guillotinee came to the throne as Louis [...]

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