NOUN
- king of France from 1774 to 1792; his failure to grant reforms led to the French Revolution; he and his queen (Marie Antoinette) were guillotined (1754-1793)
How To Use Louis XVI In A Sentence
- The term mainly refers to King Louis XVI as he was young when he became king of France. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
- Under the coating of dust and cobwebs, he discovered a fine French Louis XVI clock.
- It is in fact a fine copy of the Louis XVI style, but elaborate innovations such as the pronounced breakfront covered in flowerhead and geometric trellis exclude it from being a superior piece.
- Jones became obsessed with regality, parading around Paris in dress uniform, taking audiences with Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and courting French debutantes.
- A King should die standing. Louis XVIII, king of France.
- And when I was hoping to comprehend why "La force" did not "fonder" anything I would hear Mr. Hoffman whisper, "When you think that Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette passed the last evening they ever spent in Versailles in this theater! In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters
- While her earlier houses were twentieth-century pastiches of the Louis XVI style, here she had authentic eighteenth-century French boiserie installed in the drawing and dining rooms.
- A King should die standing. Louis XVIII, king of France.
- The exquisite white marble mantel is Italian, not French, of the time of Louis XVI. The Art of Interior Decoration
- Revolution, and beheader of Louis XVI.; he attended two masses commemorating the death of the King, celebrated in 1793 and 1794, by the Abbe de Marolles, to whom his identity was afterwards disclosed by Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2
