Connaught Place, London plaque at number 2 records the residence there of Lord Randolph Churchill from 1883 to 1892. Idina Sackville was living in Connaught Place in 1914. Connaught Place, London Connaught Place is an area in the Bayswater area of the City of Westminster (a London Borough). The nearest London Underground station to Connaught Place is Marble Arch which is a few minutes to the East near Marble Arch walking past the site of the Tyburn Tree. Located at the edge of Hyde Park, Connaught Place is framed by Edgware Road, Bayswater Road, Seymore Street and Stanhope Place. The head offices of
Execution of Louis XVI escaped destruction on politico-ideological grounds during the violently anti-clerical period at the beginning of the 20th century. Paul and Pierrette Girault de Coursac have written a number of works on Louis XVI, including: Execution of Louis XVI The execution of Louis XVI, by means of the guillotine, a major event of the French Revolution, took place on 21 January 1793 at the "Place de la Révolution" ("Revolution Square", formerly "Place Louis XV", and renamed "Place de la Concorde" in 1795) in Paris. The National Convention had convicted the king (17 January 1793) in a near-unanimous vote (while no one voted