Off with his head

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The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she said, without even looking around. - Lewis Carrol

In the case of these pictures, it is not the monarch yelling off with his head, rather it is the crowd beheading the monarch. The monarch being Louis XVI of France. In the current affairs of the 18th century some people saw his execution as a travesty, some saw it as retribution.

These images, and those after the jump are from the Public Domain Review's article, "A Slight Freshness on the Neck": Prints Depicting the Execution of Louis XVI (ca. 1793). There are more images at the link.