Coronation of Louis XVI

The Coronation of Louis XVI the King of France took place at Reims Cathedral on 11 June 1775 which fell on Trinity Sunday.

The ceremony was performed by Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon, the Archbishop of Reims.

Louis was crowned alongside his wife Marie Antoinette who he had married in 1770 in a dynastic match to support the Franco-Austrian alliance.

[3] The couple were childless at the time of the coronation but went on to have several children following the birth of Marie-Thérèse in 1778.

[4] It was the last coronation of the Ancien Regime before the French Revolution thirteen years later led to the overthrow of the monarchy.