LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Standing where a statue of King Louis XVI once was, Chris Reitz said the piece is why he's stepping down as the city's Commission on Public Art (COPA) chair. He believes King Louis' ...

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, Louis ...

More than 200 years ago, France's King Louis XVI was killed (along with his wife, Marie Antoinette) via guillotine, and legend has it someone used a handkerchief to soak up the king's blood, then ...

More than 200 years ago, France's King Louis XVI was killed (along with his wife, Marie Antoinette) via guillotine, and legend has it someone used a handkerchief to soak up the king's blood, then ...

The King’s Private Apartment at the Palace of Versailles has reopened after a restoration spanning more than four decades, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Members of Louisville Metro Council have filed a resolution asking Mayor Greg Fischer to repair and reinstall the statue of King Louis XVI on the corner of South Sixth and ...

More than 200 years ago, France's King Louis XVI was killed (along with his wife, Marie Antoinette) via guillotine, and legend has it someone used a handkerchief to soak up the king's blood, then ...

Louisville's King Louis XVI statue, defaced during 2020 racial justice protests, will be cleaned and repaired. The Metro Council approved up to $205,000 for a Cincinnati-based studio to perform the ...

Louis-Magdeleine Pluvinet, an 18th-century Parisian carpenter, designed this suite of Louis XVI furniture circa 1780. Pluvinet received his maîtrise in 1775, established his own atelier in 1778, and ...

In its latest contribution to historical anthropology, genetic sequencing has shown that a lavishly decorated gourd said to contain the blood of the French King Louis XVI does not, very likely, bear ...