A painting showing the capture of the Tuileries on 10 August In September , having thwarted a Prussian-led attempt to invade Paris, the emboldened revolutionaries decided to abolish the monarchy altogether.
Yet even this privilege was taken from her, and she was transferred to a building known as the Conciergerie. On 14 October, Marie Antoinette was brought before a tribunal, charged with conspiring with the enemy and furnishing them with money and military intelligence. More upsettingly, she was also charged with sexually abusing young Louis Charles — an accusation that she strenuously denied.
As jubilant crowds cheered, the queen — clad in a simple white dress, with her hair cut short — was beheaded by guillotine. I experience the tranquillity of mind ever attending a guiltless conscience. TV A new online only channel for history lovers. Sign Me Up. A profligate royal Marie Antoinette had been regarded as a controversial figure long before her execution.
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However, the current prison wardens, Toussaint and Marie Anne Richard, were known to be compassionate and showed their prisoners respect and consideration. They took great risks to provide Marie Antoinette with small comforts: a pillow; a small table with two straw chairs; a small wooden box of powder and a tin pot of pomade.
The queen and her wardens were under constant surveillance. Only a screen separated the queen from two guards who could be found drinking, smoking, and playing cards at any time of the day. When the queen implored Madame Richard for a fresh supply of clothing, the orders from the revolutionary government were so stern and strict that the apprehensive warden did not dare grant her wishes.
Curiously, the government officials complied and the queen received two new bonnets. He was a charming lad with fair hair and blue eyes but, when the queen saw him, she reportedly trembled with emotion and, taking him into her arms, covered him with kisses. She then burst into tears and spoke of her own son who was about the same age, but still imprisoned in the Temple prison.
She said she thought of him constantly day and night. This incident reportedly made the queen so distressed that she had to lie down. Madame Richard confided to Rosalie, the prison maid, that she would take care never to bring her son into the prison again.
What do you plan to do? I will come Friday. I cannot talk to anyone. I trust you. I will come. This was the first incident of what was known as the Carnation Affair, a plan to help the queen escape, and it could very well have succeeded. Rougeville did return on Friday to escort the queen to safety, but a guard who had been bribed stopped the queen at the last minute from leaving the premises, for reasons unknown.
The plot had failed and the queen was transported back to her cell. All parties in the affair were questioned by the authorities, but the queen was evasive, careful not to incriminate anyone. Oscar Wilde is born on October 16, in Dublin, Ireland. He grew up in Ireland and went to England to attend Oxford, where he graduated with honors in A popular society figure known for his wit and flamboyant style, he published his own book of poems in He spent a The book, about the struggles of an orphan girl who grows up to become a governess, was an immediate popular success.
Hennard then turned the gun on himself and died by suicide. The incident was one of the deadliest Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia now West Virginia , in an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery. Born in Connecticut in and raised in Ohio, Brown On October 16, , Chevrolet begins to sell a car-truck hybrid that it calls the El Camino.
On this day in , Alfred Rosenberg, the primary fabricator and disseminator of Nazi ideology, is hanged as a war criminal. Born in Estonia in , Rosenberg studied architecture at the University of Moscow.
After receiving his degree, he stayed in Russia through the early
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