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Marie Antoinette, in last year as Queen. Beauty gone - unsurprisingly.
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Marie Antoinette near death - looking much older than her 37 years.
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Quite accurate image of Marie Antoinette's freezing, damp, semi-underground cell in Conciergerie Prison.
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Marie Antoinette had 2 guards in her cell, who spent time smoking, swearing and playing cards.
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Marie Antoinette's prettied up cell in Conciergerie Prison - having had a make-over after her death.
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A prettied up version of Marie Antoinette's damp cell in Conciergerie prison.
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Marie Antoinette on trial, facing ghost-like members of the Revolutionary Tribunal.
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Marie Antoinette's trial. Members of Revolutionary Tribunal in huge hats, with huge black feathers.
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Marie Antoinette at her trial, looking stunned, after she was accused of committing incest with her son.
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Cruel sketch of Queen as she passed on the way to the guillotine, by the revolutionary artist David.
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Marie Antoinette on scaffold, with last wistful look at her palace, before execution.
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A young 15 year old Louis, around time of his marriage to 14 year old Marie Antoinette, in 1770.
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Marie Antoinette, around time 14 year old came to France as bride for 15 year old Prince.
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Axel von Fersen aged 18, when 18 year old Princess Marie Antoinette met and fell in love with him, weeks before becoming Queen.
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Young Queen, Marie Antoinette, whose kindness as a Princess made the people believe she would be kind Queen.
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Marie Antoinette in simple dress in 1783. The fashion industry attacked her for ruining them.
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Marie Antoinette in elaborate dress in 1775. "Personification of beauty."
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Marie Antoinette became infamous for buying exorbitantly priced diamonds while the people starved.
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Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, Marie Antoinette's mother. "I pity my daughter."
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Louis XVI, having op to chop off his foreskin (no anaesthetic!), so could ejaculate.
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Louis with a hangover after op to snip off his foreskin to let him ejaculate, and make Marie Antoinette pregnant.
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18th century cartoon of a greedy Louis XVI. The revolutionary papers called him a fat pig.
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A contented Marie Antoinette with 2 of her children. She waited 8 years to become pregnant.
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Sweet portrait of Queen and her 3 children, with empty carriage symbolising her lost baby daughter.
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Marie Antoinette's 2 surviving children, who were separated and each endured horror of solitary imprisonment.
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A romanticised version of the arrest in June 1791, after the failed attempt to escape, 1 year before the attack on the palace. It does not reveal just how terrifying the journey was. See Pétion's account in 'Extracts'.
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Arrest at Varennes - gives accurate idea of threatening mob who accompanied royal family back to Paris. (See extracts)
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Arrested royal family arrive back in Paris, after failed escape attempt, June 1791.
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Marie Antoinette's young daughter Marie-Thérèse - a happy moment captured for posterity, before her cruel imprisonment.
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The Comte de Provence, brother of Louis XVI, who successfully escaped in June 1791 - possibly because he had a bit of common sense and an actual desire to escape. See extract.
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Pétion - the republican deputy, who escorted the royal family back from Varennes. See extract. Tried to save lives in September Massacres.
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Empress Maria Theresa, Marie Antoinette's broken-hearted mother - "One day you'll regret your behaviour, but by then it'll be too late."
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August 1792, attack on Tuileries, resulted in 1,000 royalists dead, 1,000 revolutionaries dead.
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A saintly Louis XVI surrounded by mob. But Louis was no saint.
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Mandat, Commander of Paris National Guard as Parisians besieged palace. Tricked out of palace, killed, head stuck on pike and paraded around Paris.
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A happy mob with heads on pikes - the fate of the Queen's friend, the Princesse de Lamballe.
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Attack on Tuileries showing the hundreds of deaths.
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Lafayette - hero in US. But threatened to have Marie Antoinette sent to a nunnery for adultery.
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Mme. Campan, Queen's chief maid. Almost massacred when Queen's palace besieged.
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Princesse de Tarente, one of Marie Antoinette's brave ladies who came to palace to be with Queen, although knew it would be attacked. Survived massacre.
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Duchesse de Tourzel, governess to royal children. Witnessed September Massacres, and narrowly escaped death.
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Pauline de Tourzel escaped death during September Massacres, with aid of some revolutionaries.
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Hardi, from new revolutionary Paris Council. Saved lives of Tourzel women, at great risk to his own.
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Princesse de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's best friend. Slaughtered and head brought to Queen's prison for Queen to kiss.
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Cruel death of the Princesse de Lamballe. Marie Antoinette feared that she would also be torn to shreds.
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Louis XVI and son in Temple Tower, King teaching child geography.
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A haunted looking Louis XVI near end of reign, resigned to death.
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A calm Louis XVI at Temple Tower Prison.
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Louis XVI at foot of scaffold.
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Public delight at executions.
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Marie Antoinette's last prison - Conciergerie.
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Courtyard of Conciergerie. Marie Antoinette was passed note to look for priest at his cell window, blessing her.
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Conciergerie Prison and Palace of Justice, where Queen was put on trial.
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Versailles: where Marie Antoinette lived for 19 years.
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Marie Antoinette's luxurious bedroom at Versailles.
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Another view of Marie Antoinette's bedroom at Versailles.
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Another sumptuous room at Versailles.
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Aristocrats awaiting their turn for guillotine at Conciergerie Prison.
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Michonis, kindly Prison Inspector, who tried to help Marie Antoinette escape, and lost his life as a result.
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Fouché, the brave young woman who entered Queen's cell in Conciergerie in dead of night to ask her if she wanted her to bring a priest to comfort her in her final days.
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Father Magnin, who was secretly led into the prison at midnight by Fouché and the warden, to fortify Queen for her final ordeal.
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Fouquier-Tinville, Marie Antoinette's Prosecutor - with a face to match his occupation!
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Count Axel von Fersen, Marie Antoinette's love, who agonised over tragic, lonely death of his beloved Queen. (See letters)
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Hébert - writer of scandalous revolutionary newspaper. Presented claims of Marie Antoinette's supposed incest with her son, at trial.
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Elisabeth, Marie Antoinette's sister in law. Queen, in tears begged her to look after her children, when she was taken away from them.
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Marie Antoinette's Will, written only hours before her execution.
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Marie Antoinette leaving the Conciergerie and glimpsing the farm cart for the first time.
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Princess Marie-Thérèse, Marie Antoinette's daughter, finally freed from prison on 17th birthday.