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title: EXECUTION OF LUIGI XVI TO GUILLOTINE

subject date: 2004-12-02

caption: FRENCH REVOLUTION ''The execution of Louis XVI'' (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) in Revolution Square (place de la Concorde) at the hands of the executioner Charles-Henri Sanson (15 February 1739 – 4 July 1806); the king was executed as ''citizen Louis Capet'', and the execution was not perfect on the first shot, so the blade had to be lowered a second time to completely sever the head of the dethroned sovereign. A cordon of revolutionary soldiers kept order around the guillotine. Hand-coloured print from ''Storia Universale illustrata'', a popular work published in installments in Italy in the second half of the 19th century.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Francia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

instructions: Per utilizzi: Fototeca Gilardi - t. 02 3931 2652

file date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 49936

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

subject century: XVIII

subject epoch: Rivoluzione Francese

technique: Stampa colorata

id: 6627

file name: FSNgilardi_49936.jpg

keywords

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