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3 days ago · This site is a collaboration of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (City University of New York), supported by grants from the Florence Gould Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
4 days ago · On October 16, 1793, Marie Antoinette met her end at the guillotine. Dressed in a simple white gown, her hair shorn, she maintained a regal composure, even apologizing to her executioner for stepping on his foot. Her final moments underscored the tragic irony of her situation: a queen brought low by the very people she once ruled.
3 days ago · The first execution by guillotine was of Nicolas Pelletier, a thief, on April 25, 1792. A great many more guillotine executions followed during the next two years. A short list of famous people who were put to death in this way includes the following: King Louis XVI; Queen Marie Antoinette; onetime Revolution leader Georges Danton
5 days ago · Marie Antoinette was captured and made to suffer humiliation at the hands of her captors, before she was eventually executed by guillotine in 1793. You may also like: The world's most beautiful ...
5 days ago · Annotation. This engraving, based on a color portrait by Beys, depicts the death of Robespierre on the guillotine. The executioners wear not the traditional hangman’s hood but red bonnets representing liberty. This judgment notes Robespierre’s failure to the Revolution itself. Contemporaries emphasized that Robespierre’s punishment was ...
3 days ago · Enemy of the people - King + Marie Antoinette was tried and executed b. Show trials with little formal support - contrast of quartering if you hurt the king v guillotine c. Robespierre leader decline = end of terror; 1795 New Constitution 6. Saint-Domingue Autonomous a.
5 days ago · Many names abound in the following acts, whether they’re in them or not, that are not fictional. Necessary to know is that the king Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette were both executed in 1793. What followed was known as the Reign of Terror, from September 5, 1793 to July 27, 1794. Acts II, III, and IV take place near the end of that ...
