Isidore Helman’s engraving of the execution of King Louis XVI invariably draws you to the gruesome visage of a man displaying the severed head to the assembled lines of National Guard troops. Something more apt for our contemporary eyes, however, is an unremarkable concrete plinth in the back right of the then Place de la Révolution.
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