In France, he helped topple two kings (Louis XVI and Charles X) and an emperor (Napoleon).
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One hundred years later, Louis XVI was forced to leave Versailles for the capital by an angry Paris mob.
On the morning that Mr. Barnett came to see the model apartment, he sat down in one of the Louis XVI chairs.
Louis XVI dining chairs from the 18th century encircle a stone table with a recessed bowl in the middle where candles float.
So Franklin's chief task, after France entered a military pact with America in 1778, was to coax more money from Louis XVI.
The package includes two nights in a posh Louis XVI-styled room, as well as a guided tour of the stunning gardens at Highgrove House.
The dissenters dissent and the supporters support, and the whole thing is as mannered as a minuet danced at the court of Louis XVI.
In 1792, in France the Legislative Assembly ended its session with calls for revolution and without debating the motions for the removal of the King Louis XVI.
Five thousand vendors, who peddle everything on Ebay from 270hp Yamaha jet boats and Louis XVI domed canopy beds to breast-enhancement pills, gathered at the Anaheim Convention Center, not far from Disneyland, over the first weekend of summer.
From 2002 to 2005, Cal-a-Vie, in Vista, Califonia, underwent renovations spearheaded by owners Terri and John Havens that include touches like antique clocks, Portuguese tile, Italian chandeliers and a huge Louis XVI tapestry in the spa's great room.
Madame Tussaud was born Marie Grosholtz in France in 1761, and learned to sculpt wax as a teenager -- her early subjects included Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin -- and went on to become a favorite of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
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