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- She was accompanied by a constitutional priest dressed as a layman, and was escorted by numerous detachments of mounted and dismounted police.
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Nov 7, 2022 · 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 executed on 16 October 1793. Marie Antoinette Being Taken to Her Execution, 16 October 1793. William Hamilton (Public Domain)
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
Apr 14, 2022 · 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. Against the poverty of late 18th-century France, the ...
Helen Maria Williams was an English writer and poet who lived in France during the revolution. She was a political moderate, a supporter of the National Assembly and the Girondins, but an opponent of violence and radicalism. Here, in a private letter, she recalls the trial and execution of Marie-Antoinette:
4 days ago · As historian Antonia Fraser notes in her biography, "Marie Antoinette: The Journey," the young queen‘s Austrian heritage "was a handicap which she could never entirely overcome" (Fraser, 2001, p. 22). Despite her efforts to win over the French people, Marie Antoinette‘s reputation was tarnished by her perceived extravagance and frivolity.
May 13, 2024 · Marie-Antoinette (born November 2, 1755, Vienna, Austria—died October 16, 1793, Paris, France) was the Austrian queen consort of King Louis XVI of France (1774–93). Her name is associated with the decline in the moral authority of the French monarchy in the closing years of the ancien régime, though her courtly extravagance was but a minor ...
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 ...
