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Apr 14, 2022 · On October 16, 1793, Marie Antoinette was beheaded — just months after her husband King Louis XVI met the same fate. Marie Antoinette: the very name of the doomed queen of France, the last of the Ancien Régime, evokes power and fascination.
Empress Maria Theresa died on 29 November 1780 in Vienna. Marie Antoinette feared that the death of her mother would jeopardise the Franco-Austrian alliance, as well as, ultimately, herself, but her brother, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, wrote to her that he had no intention of breaking the alliance.
Jun 17, 2024 · Marie-Antoinette-Josèphe-Jeanne d’Autriche-Lorraine (Austria-Lorraine) Originally German: Maria Antonia Josepha Joanna von Österreich-Lothringen. Born: November 2, 1755, Vienna, Austria. Died: October 16, 1793, Paris, France (aged 37) Notable Family Members: spouse Louis XVI.
Dec 27, 2021 · The story of Marie Antoinette’s death still fascinates and horrifies. The former French queen was found guilty of treason in October, 1793, and sentenced to death.
Nov 9, 2009 · In 1793, the king was executed; then, Marie Antoinette was arrested and tried for trumped-up crimes against the French republic. She was convicted and sent to the guillotine on October 16, 1793.
Nov 7, 2022 · The execution of Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) left the king’s widow, Marie Antoinette, overwhelmed with grief. Like a ghost, she haunted her chambers in the Tower of the Temple, the Paris prison fortress where she and her children were being detained by the revolutionary government.
Before the guillotine stands Marie Antoinette with Sanson, the same executioner who had dispatched her husband ten months before. Surrounded by soldiers, and tens of thousands of onlookers, she awaits the moment of death.
Feb 3, 2021 · As well as her extravagant tastes and seeming disregard for France’s peasantry, Marie Antoinette is just as famous for her death by guillotine on 16 October 1793. Executed in Paris nine months after her husband, King Louis XVI, the queen had become the subject of intense national hatred – a symbol of everything the revolutionaries sought to ...
Apr 4, 2022 · Upon his death, 19-year-old Louis-Auguste ascended to the throne as Louis XVI, king of France and Navarre, with Marie Antoinette his queen consort. The coronation was held in Reims just over a year later.
Marie-Antoinette was guillotined in 1793 after the Revolutionary Tribunal found her guilty of crimes against the state. The royal family had been compelled to leave Versailles in 1789 and live in captivity in Paris.
