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Hace 5 días · Publication Date: 2016 This book surveys prostitution at the time of the French Revolution. This is a key period because it marks an unprecedented turning point by decriminalizing this activity while maintaining police control over the women involved with the result of making prostitutes, "infamous women" of the Ancien Régime and diminished citizens of the Republic.
- Margaret Schaus
- 2019
Hace 5 días · Publication Date: 2013-01-15 In July 1789, Welsh-born George Cadogan Morgan, the nephew of the celebrated radical dissenter Richard Price, found himself in France at the outbreak of the French Revolution.
- Margaret Schaus
- 2019
Hace 4 días · Among the most significant of the objects is the rosary of Marie-Antoinette, the last queen of France and the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, who was executed during the French Revolution in October 1793.
Hace 6 días · Execution The execution scene, drawn by eyewitness Robert Beale. At Fotheringhay, on the evening of 7 February 1587, Mary was told she was to be executed the next morning. She spent the last hours of her life in prayer, distributing her belongings to her household, and writing her will and a letter to the King of France.
Hace 1 día · Execution of Marie Antoinette, 1793 Execution of Jacques Pierre Brissot, 1793 The execution of Robespierre The execution of Robespierre, 1794. Jacques Cazotte (1792) – guillotined for treason; Arnaud II de La Porte (1792) – second political victim of the guillotine; François III Maximilien de la Woestyne, 3rd Marquess of Becelaere
TIL Queen Marie Antoinette of France, largely viewed as haughty, callous and aloof at the time of her execution, used her last words to genuinely apologize to her executioner for accidentally stepping on his foot.
Hace 5 días · During the Reign of Terror, spanning from September 1793 to July 1794, the guillotine evolved into an instrument of political repression. The Revolutionary Tribunal, tasked with identifying adversaries of the revolution, dispatched thousands to the guillotine, including King Louis XVI, Queen Marie Antoinette, and numerous political figures.
