The Last Supper - Le Pelletier’s Assassination
On 20 January 1793, just one day before King Louis XVI was beheaded, a man named Le Pelletier went to dine by himself in a restaurant at Palais-Royal. As he was starting to enjoy his soup, another man entered the restaurant and approached him.

- Are you Le Pelletier de Saint-Fargeau?
- Yes I am!
- Did you vote in favor of the execution of the King?
- Yes, I voted according to my conscience.
- Ah! According to your conscience? You miserable fool!

As he was exclaiming these words, the stranger pulled out a sword and drove it in the stomach of Le Pelletier who passed away later in the evening. The execution of the King divided the population and is one of the many causes the French Revolution turned more and more radical...