“I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death, and pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited upon France.”
Louis XVI delivered this speech to his executioners prior to his execution by guillotine at the Place de la Révolution, Paris. The last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution was given the death penalty after being found guilty of high treason and crimes against the state, he was 38 years old at the time of his death.