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3 days ago · In mid-October, Marie Antoinette was convicted of a long list of crimes, and guillotined; two weeks later, the Girondist leaders arrested in June were also executed, along with Philippe Égalité. The "Terror" was not confined to Paris, with over 2,000 killed in Lyons after its recapture.
- 5 May 1789 – 9 November 1799, (10 years, 6 months, and 4 days)
23 hours ago · With Louis XVI’s guillotine execution on January 21, 1793, centuries of French monarchical authority came to an end, and a new period of republican governance began. 5. Marie Antoinette. Louis XVI’s wife, Marie Antoinette, personified the grandeur and luxury of the French monarchy at a time when social and economic turmoil was on the rise.
2 days ago · The key figure in initial foreign reaction to the French Revolution was Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, brother of Queen Marie Antoinette of France. Leopold had initially looked on the Revolution with equanimity, but became more and more disturbed as the Revolution became more radical, although he still hoped to avoid war.
- 20 April 1792 – 27 March 1802, (9 years, 11 months, and 5 days)
4 days ago · In a scene immortalised by Asia Argento and Kirsten Dunst, who play the pair in Sofia Coppola’s 2006 Marie Antoinette, the young women finally confronted each other at a ball on New Year’s Day 1772. Antoinette, it’s said, approached the maîtress-en-titre with the charming phrase 'there are many people in Versailles today'.
4 days ago · In doing so, he also recalls a poignant story regarding the execution of Habsburg Queen of France Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution; the contributions of Emperor Charles V, the ...
5 days ago · Her last words before her execution, however, are authentically recorded. Marie Antoinette was executed by guillotine on October 16, 1793, at 12:15 pm. As she was climbing the scaffold, she accidentally stepped on the executioner's foot and said: "Forgive me, monsieur.
