Mr. Peabody is a gifted Anthropomorphism dog who lives in a penthouse in New York City and there, he raises his adopted human son, 7-year-old Sherman, and tutors him travelling throughout history using the WABAC machine, a Time travel. They visit Marie Antoinette in Versailles, France during the French Revolution in 1789. Getting caught in the Reign of Terror, Peabody is nearly sent to the guillotine to be executed by Maximilien Robespierre, but escapes with Sherman through the Paris sewers.