正面
正面的文字 LUDOVICUS XVI GALLIAE REX SECURI CIVIUM PERCUSSUS.
正面的说明书 Tête nue à droite de Louis XVI ; signé STIERLE au-dessous.
正面的翻译 (Louis XVI roi de France frappé par la hache des citoyens).
背面
背面的文字 HEU NIMIS SERO MANANT // À L’EXERGUE : D. XXI IAN. / MDCCXCIII..
背面的说明书 La France assise de face, pleurant sur les armes de France. Au-dessous de son siège une hache.
背面的翻译 (Hélas ! elles coulent trop tard).
历史细节
LOUIS XVI
(05/10/1774-01/21/1793)
The Girondin ministry, formed on March 23, 1792, declared war on April 20 on the King of Bohemia and Hungary, Leopold II. Rouget de Lisle composes the Marseillaise on April 25th. The Fatherland is declared "in danger" on July 11. The Parisians and the Marseillais take the Tuileries and massacre the defenders of the castle, Swiss and noble, the king and his family take refuge near the Assembly. Louis XVI was stripped of his functions and interned in the Temple on August 12. In early September, massacres took place in Parisian prisons, including the Carmelites, and claimed thousands of victims, including the Princess of Lamballe, Marie-Antoinette's friend. Dumouriez and Kellermann won the victory of Valmy over the Prussians on September 20, 1792. The news was quickly known thanks to Chappe's telegraph. The following day, the republic was proclaimed and royalty abolished at the first meeting of the Convention. Dumouriez defeated the Austrians at Jemmapes on November 6 and occupied Brussels. The King's trial begins on December 10. On January 17, he was sentenced to death by a majority vote and was guillotined on January 21, 1793..