Martin Antonenko
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The execution of the "Widow Capet"...!
On October 16, 1793, Marie Antoinette, daughter of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, was deposed and hated because of her lavish lifestyle ("Madame Deficit")...
...publicly executed by guillotine on the Place de la Revolution at Paris...:
A day earlier, the "Widow Capet", as her official name was after the execution of her husband, Louis XVI, who had also been deposed. on January 21, 1793 was sentenced to death by a revolutionary tribunal - here are the signatures of the members of the tribunal on the death sentence...:
Incidentally, the name "Capet", which the revolutionaries gave the ex-royal couple, is derived from the Capetians - and historically not entirely correct.
The trial of the "Widow Capet" who had aged greatly in Temple prison...
... was marred by scandals as public prosecutor Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville...
... was obsessed with the idea of proving the ex-monarch "fornication" with her own two children.
In order to get proof of his claim, Fouquier-Thinville even coerced statements from their children, who were accordingly pressured.
But even sworn enemies of the "Widow Capet" had to admit that the deposed queen defended herself with great dignity against the fabricated allegations that were dropped during the trial...:
Nevertheless, Marie Antoinette did not escape the death sentence, which was clear from the outset.
At exactly 12 noon on October 16, 1793, Marie-Antoinette was beheaded on Revolution Square, today's Place de la Concorde...:
A drawing by the painter Jacques-Louis David that has become famous shows the condemned woman on the hangman's cart on her way to the guillotine. He was standing by the window when she was driven past on the street below.
The drawing can be seen above.
Marie-Antoinette was buried in a mass grave near today's La Madeleine church.
More than 20 years after her death, her body was exhumed - with a garter helping to identify her - and Marie-Antoinette was now buried in Saint-Denis Cathedral in Saint-Denis (10.3 km north of Paris), the traditional burial place of the French kings, buried at her husband's side.
Her zealous accuser did not even survive the "Widow Capet" by two years:
After the fall of his lord and master Robespierre, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville was allowed to "spit his head in the basket" on May 7, 1795, also on the guillotine...
On October 16, 1793, Marie Antoinette, daughter of the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, was deposed and hated because of her lavish lifestyle ("Madame Deficit")...
...publicly executed by guillotine on the Place de la Revolution at Paris...:
A day earlier, the "Widow Capet", as her official name was after the execution of her husband, Louis XVI, who had also been deposed. on January 21, 1793 was sentenced to death by a revolutionary tribunal - here are the signatures of the members of the tribunal on the death sentence...:
Incidentally, the name "Capet", which the revolutionaries gave the ex-royal couple, is derived from the Capetians - and historically not entirely correct.
The trial of the "Widow Capet" who had aged greatly in Temple prison...
... was marred by scandals as public prosecutor Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville...
... was obsessed with the idea of proving the ex-monarch "fornication" with her own two children.
In order to get proof of his claim, Fouquier-Thinville even coerced statements from their children, who were accordingly pressured.
But even sworn enemies of the "Widow Capet" had to admit that the deposed queen defended herself with great dignity against the fabricated allegations that were dropped during the trial...:
Nevertheless, Marie Antoinette did not escape the death sentence, which was clear from the outset.
At exactly 12 noon on October 16, 1793, Marie-Antoinette was beheaded on Revolution Square, today's Place de la Concorde...:
A drawing by the painter Jacques-Louis David that has become famous shows the condemned woman on the hangman's cart on her way to the guillotine. He was standing by the window when she was driven past on the street below.
The drawing can be seen above.
Marie-Antoinette was buried in a mass grave near today's La Madeleine church.
More than 20 years after her death, her body was exhumed - with a garter helping to identify her - and Marie-Antoinette was now buried in Saint-Denis Cathedral in Saint-Denis (10.3 km north of Paris), the traditional burial place of the French kings, buried at her husband's side.
Her zealous accuser did not even survive the "Widow Capet" by two years:
After the fall of his lord and master Robespierre, Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville was allowed to "spit his head in the basket" on May 7, 1795, also on the guillotine...
