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Marie's is a story of a charmed life and tragic death. What was her childhood like? How was her life with Louis XVI at Versailles and what caused her eventua...
Fig. 1 Death Mask of Henry IV of France. Deep in the central Bourbon crypt, the revelations of the first coffin to be opened, that of the dynasty’s progenitor King Henri IV (1553-1610), caused a sensation: eerily torchlit, the corpse and shroud proved stunningly well preserved.
Nov 7, 2022 · The execution of Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) left the king’s widow, Marie Antoinette, overwhelmed with grief. Like a ghost, she haunted her chambers in the Tower of the Temple, the Paris prison fortress where she and her children were being detained by the revolutionary government.
Feb 3, 2021 · As well as her extravagant tastes and seeming disregard for France’s peasantry, Marie Antoinette is just as famous for her death by guillotine on 16 October 1793.
Oct 4, 2018 · The death mask of Jean-Paul Marat cast by Tussaud. Photograph: James L. Stanfield/National Geographic/Getty Images. Tussaud was trained by a Swiss master of wax anatomy, Philippe Curtius.
Object: The unfortunate Marie Antoinette Queen of France at the place of execution, October 16th 1793 ... Description Marie Antoinette stands on the scaffold turning her head in profile to the left. to look at the guillotine.
Execution of Marie Antoinette (16 October 1793) at the Place de la Révolution. Annotation. 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.
