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The Terror: The Execution of Marie Antoinette (Part 3)
In what conditions was Marie Antoinette - once the most glamorous woman in Europe - imprisoned for over a year, before and after the execution of King Louis XVI? Why were the French Revolutionaries divided on her own fate? And, how did she finally face the guillotine on October 16th, 1793? Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss one of the most shocking moments of the French Revolution, and the death knell to the monarchy: The execution of the former Queen of France, Marie Antoinette. Join The Rest Is History C...
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began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy.
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elevation and that fall. Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those
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It is now 16 or 17 years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphinesse, Adversay, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch. A more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just
began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution. And what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion, that elevation and that fall. Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love that she should ever be obliged to carry the
sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom. did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look
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