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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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, vividly recaptured in this richly researched history. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 -- Imprisonment.
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Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793. |
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Imprisonment. |
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Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 -- Death and burial.
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France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France. |
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Trials. |
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France. |
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Revolution (France : 1789-1799) |
| Chronological Term |
1789-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bashor, Will. Marie Antoinette's darkest days. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 9781442254992 (DLC) 2016000797 |
| ISBN |
9781442255005 (electronic) |
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1442255005 (electronic) |
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9781442254992 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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