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Marie Antoinette's darkest days : prisoner no. 280 in the Conciergerie /

The book begins on the 2nd of August 1793, the day Marie Antoinette was torn from her family's arms and escorted from the Temple to the Conciergerie, a thick-walled fortress turned prison. It was also known as the "waiting room for the guillotine" because prisoners only spent a day or...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bashor, Will (Author)
Format: Book
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.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799.
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 and 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.