Marie Antoinette's darkest days : prisoner no. 280 in the Conciergerie
(2016)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/MARIE ANTOINETTE

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir BIOGRAPHY/MARIE ANTOINETTE Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
DESCRIPTION

xviii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781442254992, 1442254998, 40026606376
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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 two here before their conviction and subsequent execution. The ex-queen surely knew her days were numbered, but she could never have known that two and a half months would pass before she would finally stand trial and be convicted of the most ungodly charges