Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals ...

is a paragon of Baroque architecture that once served as a royal residence and the de facto capital of France—but its beginnings are far more humble. In 1623, King Louis XIII built a hunting ...

In the centuries since, it’s said to have housed Savoy princes, a prime minister, parliamentarians and even a 9-year-old Louis XIII during his coronation in 1610. The second floor hums with ...