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  1. Apr 14, 2022 · By Andrew Milne | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis. Published April 14, 2022. Updated May 4, 2022. On October 16, 1793, Marie Antoinette was beheaded — just months after her husband King Louis XVI met the same fate. Marie Antoinette: the very name of the doomed queen of France, the last of the Ancien Régime, evokes power and fascination.

  2. Nov 7, 2022 · The trial and execution of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), formerly the queen of France, was among the opening events of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution (1789-1799). Accused of a series of crimes that included conspiring with foreign powers against the security of France, Marie Antoinette was found guilty of high treason and ...

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  3. May 1, 2011 · File:Marie Antoinette being taken to her Execution, 1794.jpg. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. File. File history. File usage on Commons. File usage on other wikis. Metadata. Size of this preview: 785 × 599 pixels. Other resolutions: 314 × 240 pixels | 629 × 480 pixels | 1,006 × 768 pixels | 1,280 × 977 pixels | 1,400 × ...

  4. Nov 7, 2022 · by William Hamilton. published on 07 November 2022. Download Full Size Image. Marie Antoinette being taken from the prison of the Conciergerie to the guillotine on 16 October 1793. She appears in the center wearing a white dress, contrasted with the dark clothed figures around her. Painting by William Hamilton, 1794, oil on canvas.

  5. Marie Antoinette on her way to the guillotine. Pen and ink by Jacques-Louis David, 16 October 1793. Marie Antoinette's execution by guillotine on 16 October 1793: at left, Sanson, the executioner, showing Marie Antoinette's head to the people. Anonymous, 1793.

  6. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › marie-antoinetteMarie Antoinette | Smithsonian

    Marie Antoinette. The teenage queen was embraced by France in 1770. Twenty-three years later, she lost her head to the guillotine. (But she never said, “Let them eat cake”) Richard Covington ...

  7. This postcard in English and French does show the broader scene at the execution of the Queen. Before the guillotine stands Marie Antoinette with Sanson, the same executioner who had dispatched her husband ten months before.

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