2022年11月7日 · 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.

2022年4月14日 · Falling from the Olympus-on-earth of Versailles to the humble cell of the Conciergerie and ultimately the executioner’s scaffold on October 16, 1793, the final days of the last real Queen of France were full of humiliation, degradation, and blood.

2021年12月27日 · In 1793, four years after the French Revolution began, Marie Antoinette was no longer Queen of France. Her husband, King Louis XVI, had been executed for crimes against France, and she too had been issued the death penalty after a swift trial.

2021年2月3日 · Executed in Paris nine months after her husband, King Louis XVI, the queen had become the subject of intense national hatred – a symbol of everything the revolutionaries sought to erase if the new French Republic was to succeed. But how did Marie Antoinette end up being so widely loathed?

Marie Antoinette Being Taken to Her Execution by William Hamilton, 1794 In the early hours of 16th October 1793, a famous widow awaited her last sunrise in a dingy cell at La Conciergerie, as hated by some as she was loved by others.

2019年4月27日 · Execution of Marie Antoinette On October 16, 1793, just a few months after her husband suffered the same fate, Marie was publicly executed (beheaded) at the age of 37 years. She was gruesomely decapitated using a guillotine.

2020年12月2日 · As the Estates General met for the first time since 1614 and formed a procession through the streets of Versailles, led by Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, the sickly Dauphin Louis-Joseph waved from a balcony as his parents passed. One month later, the seven and half year old had died.

She was condemned to death and executed by guillotine on October 16, 1793. Her beheading, like her husband’s, was a public event attended by a large crowd; it sent a chilling signal to the European monarchs that the revolutionaries would tolerate no counterrevolutionary activities. Source: Etching by an unknown artist, c. 1793.

2024年10月16日 · Marie Antoinette, the former Queen of France, was executed by guillotine in Paris. Her death marked a pivotal moment in the French Revolution, symbolizing the downfall of the monarchy and the rise of republican ideals in France.

2024年5月26日 · 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).