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1.2M views 3 years ago. ...more. Marie Antoinette, 2 November 1775 – 16 October 1793One of the most enduring images associated with the French Revolution is of Marie Antoinette facing her...
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The execution of Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) left the king’s widow, Marie Antoinette, overwhelmed with grief. Like a ghost, she haunted her chambers in the Tower of the Temple, the Paris prison fortress where she and her children were being detained by the revolutionary government. In the days after her husband’s death, the former queen bare...
The emperor’s inaction vexed many of Marie Antoinette’s remaining friends. Count Axel von Fersen, the dashing Swedish soldier who had once been the queen’s paramour, declared his intent to gather a group of brave men, ride to Paris, and storm the Temple in a veritable suicide mission. Count de La Marck urged the Austrian court at Vienna to offer a ...
At 2 am on 1 August, a month after Louis-Charles was taken away, Jacobin officials roused Marie Antoinette from her sleep and ordered her to dress. After a hurried goodbye to Marie-Thérèse, the queen was taken under armed escort to the prison of the Conciergerie, a damp, dark place that was often the final stop for prisoners on the road to the guil...
On the night of 12 October, Marie Antoinette was again woken from her sleep and brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal to be indicted. After denying the charges listed against her, she was given the right to a defense counsel and sent back to her cell. Unlike Louis XVI, who had been given weeks to prepare a defense, Marie Antoinette had only hou...
In her last hours, Marie Antoinette was allowed writing materials. In a letter to Madame Elizabeth, she wrote of her deepest regret in having to leave her children: “you know that I have lived on only for them and for you, my dear and tender sister” (Fraser, 436). She wrote of how she would soon be rejoining Madame Elizabeth’s brother, meaning Loui...
6 de jul. de 2020 · From PBS' 'Marie Antoinette"
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The execution, like that of her husband, took place at the Place de la Révolution, recently renamed from Place de Louis XV (currently Place de la Concorde). Dominating the entire scene was a giant statue of Liberty sitting on a pedestal that once held a statue of Louis XV.
Trayecto desde la Conciergerie. María Antonieta camino de su ejecución, por François Flameng (1887), Museo de la Revolución francesa. Dibujo de María Antonieta realizado por Jacques Louis David en la rue Saint-Honoré momentos antes de la ejecución. La mañana del miércoles 16 de octubre, María Antonieta desayunó bouillon y se cambió ...
“For a long time the Jacobins had demanded the trial of Marie-Antoinette, whose existence, they declared, endangered that of the republic. She was accordingly arraigned for having committed a series of crimes which, in the language of the indictment, comprehended not merely counter-revolutionary projects, but all the enormities of the Messalinas, Brunehauts, Fredegondes and Medicis.
March 13th 2024. Written by Harrison W. Mark and read by Lianne Walker. Support our work on Patreon: https://www.worldhistory.org/patreon/ The trial and execution of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), formerly the queen of France, was among the opening events of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution (1789-1799).
