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1 day ago · On October 16, 1793, Marie Antoinette was executed by guillotine at the Place de la Révolution (now Place de la Concorde) in Paris. Her last words, as recorded by the executioner Charles Henri Sanson, were "Pardon me, sir, I did not do it on purpose," after accidentally stepping on his foot as she ascended the scaffold (Fraser, 2001, p. 440).
4 days ago · Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, kneeling before the guillotine next to her confessor on the day of her execution, October 1793. Image credit: Wellcome Collection (Public Domain)
1 day ago · Nine months after that they did the same to his wife, Marie Antoinette. The execution by guillotine of King Louis XVI by revolutionary zealots. Meanwhile, Robespierre, who headed the Committee of Public Safety became too zealous for the Committee’s liking and they had him also dispatched by guillotine, July 27, 1794.
3 days ago · Marie Antoinette, an archduchess of Austria and queen consort of France, holds a significant place in history, often depicted in literature and film. When the French Revolution erupted and the monarchy fell in 1792, she was imprisoned in the Temple Tower while her husband, Louis XVI, was deposed and executed.
5 days ago · HUSBANDS BOSWORTH, England — Valuable sacred Catholic artifacts, including papal slippers, a rosary of Marie-Antoinette, and a Book of Hours belonging to a martyred courtier to King Henry VIII, are part of a treasure-trove of significant objects found at the home of one England’s oldest Catholic families. The Constable-Maxwell family who ...
4 days ago · Many famous members of the French nobility were executed by guillotine during the reign of terror, which lasted from June 1793 to July 1794, notably Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI, and Maximilien Robespierre. It is unclear how many people were executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror – estimates vary widely from 15,000 to 40,000.
15 hours ago · "We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of ...
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