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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.
Feb 9, 2010 · 1793. Marie Antoinette is beheaded. Nine months after the execution of her husband, the former King Louis XVI of France, Marie Antoinette follows him to the guillotine on October 16, 1793....
I have read that Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were both buried in unmarked graves after their executions during the French Revolution. On January 18, 1815, during the Bourbon Restoration, their bodies were exhumed and moved to their current location in the necropolis of French kings at the Basilica of St. Denis.
- It seems that a loyalist by the name of Pierre-Louis Olivier Desclozeaux, who lived next to the plot of land where Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette w...
- What terminex9 said. The king and queen were buried in unmarked, individual graves in the cemetery, not in the mass graves that were also present....
- Agree to all the aforementioned. I’ve been to the small park on that spot & in the Chapelle Expiatoire. Climbing down from ground level, you are le...
- French Wikipedia article on Olivier Desclozeaux (not available in other languages) adds a few details to the answer given by @terminex9: Pierre-Lo...
Feb 3, 2021 · As jubilant crowds cheered, the queen – clad in a simple white dress, with her hair cut short – was beheaded by guillotine. Although Marie Antoinette’s remains would be reburied in 1815 during the Bourbon restoration, her body was taken to the city’s Madeleine cemetery and hastily interred in an unmarked grave.
Nov 23, 2021 · By Leslie Veliz / Nov. 23, 2021 1:44 pm EST. On October 16, 1793, Marie Antoinette, former queen of France, was beheaded (via History ). According to Mental Floss, while the French people were starving, Marie Antoinette was living it up and spending excessively.
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Jul 23, 2022 · The new assembly charged the king with treason and beheaded him with the guillotine in January 1793 (via Britannica). The assembly leaders moved Marie Antoinette to the Conciergerie, a large complex along the Seine River in Paris.
Jul 11, 2023 · Marie Antoinette was beheaded nine months after her husband, Louis XVI, by order of the Revolutionary tribunal. She was 37 years old when she died in 1793. Quick Facts. FULL NAME: Marie...
