Marie Antoinette's darkest days : prisoner no. 280 in the Conciergerie
(2016)
By:
Bashor, Will
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/MARIE ANTOINETTE
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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
CONTENTS
Part I. The Conciergerie --
Transfer from the Temple Prison --
Queen's dungeon cell --
Horrors of the Conciergerie --
Kindhearted souls --
Part II. Rescue the queen! --
Royalist supporters --
Carnation Plot --
Queen's new cell --
Tightened security --
Part III. The queen's arraignment --
Prosecutor Fouquier-Tinville --
Indictment, the jury, and the witnesses --
Revolutionary Tribunal: day one --
Revolutionary Tribunal: day two --
Part IV. October 16, 1793: cold and cloudy --
Queen's last rites --
Route of the fatal tumbril --
The "national razor" --
Part V. The absurdity --
Unfortunates and the sole survivors --
La Cimetière de la Madeleine