Marie Antoinette's darkest days : Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie

Marie Antoinette's darkest days : Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie / Will Bashor.

Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days recreates in compelling detail the short but intensely agonizing period of the ex-queen's incarceration in the Conciergerie, Her seventy-six days in this terrifying prison can only be described as the darkest and most horrific of the fallen queen's life...

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Main Author: Bashor, Will (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Subjects:
Marie Antoinette, > Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, > 1755-1793 > Imprisonment.
Marie Antoinette, > Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, > 1755-1793 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Marie Antoinette, > Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, > 1755-1793 > Death and burial.
Marie Antoinette, > Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, > 1755-1793
1789-1799
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Death and burial of a person
Imprisonment
Trials
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799.
France
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The Conciergerie
  • Transfer from the Temple Prison
  • The queen's dungeon cell
  • The horrors of the Conciergerie
  • Kindhearted souls
  • Part II. Rescue the queen!
  • Royalist supporters
  • The Carnation Plot
  • The queen's new cell
  • Tightened security
  • Part III. The queen's arraignment
  • Prosecutor Fouquier-Tinville
  • The indictment, the jury, and the witnesses
  • The Revolutionary Tribunal: day one
  • The Revolutionary Tribunal: day two
  • Part IV. October 16, 1793: cold & cloudy
  • The queen's last rites
  • The route of the fatal tumbril
  • The "national razor"
  • Part V. The absurdity
  • The unfortunates and the sole survivors
  • La Cimetière de la Madeleine
  • Epilogue.

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