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1 day ago · The overthrow of the monarchy on August 10, 1792, marked the beginning of the end for Marie Antoinette. The royal family was imprisoned in the Temple, and Louis XVI was tried for treason and executed on January 21, 1793. Marie Antoinette, now known as the "Widow Capet," remained imprisoned, separated from her children (Weber, 2006).
6 days ago · Maintaining that the trial and public execution of Louis XVI was an absolutely essential part of the French Revolution, Walzer discusses two types of regicide: the first, committed by would-be kings or their agents, left the monarchy's mystique and divine right intact, while the second was a revolutionary act intended to destroy it completely.
- Margaret Schaus
- 2019
2 days ago · Text. Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, younger brother of Louis XVI, later ruled as Louis XVIII (1814–24). More liberal than his brothers, Provence was no friend to reform before 1789. He left the country in June 1791, establishing a royalist center at Coblentz. He fomented conspiracies in and outside of France against the revolutionary government and ...
3 days ago · French artist Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun thought very highly of Queen Marie Antoinette, and here remembers her final portrait sitting with her and the beginning of her downfall: "The last sitting I had with Her Majesty was given me at Trianon, where I did her hair for the large picture in which she appeared with her children.
5 days ago · In January 1793, the seven-year-old Dauphin Louis Charles was proclaimed by royalists as King Louis XVII upon his father’s execution by guillotine. At the time, the child was separated from his mother, Marie Antoinette, who was in Temple prison awaiting trial and placed under the care of a cobbler, Antoine Simon.
6 days ago · The residence of the last three French kings of the ancien regime, Versailles, was also the residence of their wives: Marie-Thérèse, who died there in 1683, Marie Leszcynska, who lived there from 1725 to 1768, and Marie Antoinette from 1770 to 1789.
4 days ago · 13. It took Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI eight years to have a child. When was their first child born?
