Execution of Louis XVI
“Place de la Révolution, January 21, 1793. The guillotine stands amid a vast Paris crowd as the king is led up the steps. Foreground shows Sanson the executioner gripping the lunette release and a drumroll on a snare; midground reveals National Guards in tricolor cockades and the carriage of a confessor; the Tuileries gardens stretch behind in damp winter light.”
