Paris boils with revolution as crowds demand Louis XVI's removal; violence erupts.

While King Louis XVI remained the nominal head ... Years later Thomas Jefferson would admit that his own support for the French Revolution was misguided: "Your prophecies," he wrote to Adams, ...

The king was regarded as sacred ... "It's a thought-provoking fact that women lost power after the French Revolution and the introduction of democracy. They could neither be elected nor vote ...

Pérez-Crespo, Carlos 2024. Sieyès’s idea of constituent power: a moderate and illiberal idea of sovereignty in the French revolution. History of European Ideas, Vol. 50, Issue. 6, p. 1029.

The guillotine was first used during the French Revolution, with 16,000 people beheaded between 1793 and 1794, most notably King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.