Marie Antoinette's darkest days : Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie /
Bashor, Will,
Marie Antoinette's darkest days : Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie / Will Bashor. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. The Conciergerie -- Transfer from the Temple Prison -- The queen's dungeon cell -- The horrors of the Conciergerie -- Kindhearted souls -- Part II. Rescue the queen! -- Royalist supporters -- The Carnation Plot -- The queen's new cell -- Tightened security -- Part III. The queen's arraignment -- Prosecutor Fouquier-Tinville -- The indictment, the jury, and the witnesses -- The Revolutionary Tribunal: day one -- The Revolutionary Tribunal: day two -- Part IV. October 16, 1793: cold & cloudy -- The queen's last rites -- The route of the fatal tumbril -- The "national razor" -- Part V. The absurdity -- The unfortunates and the sole survivors -- La Cimetière de la Madeleine -- Epilogue.
Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days recreates in compelling detail the short but intensely agonizing period of the ex-queen's incarceration in the Conciergerie, Her seventy-six days in this terrifying prison can only be described as the darkest and most horrific of the fallen queen's life, vividly recaptured in this richly researched history.
9781442255005 (electronic) 1442255005 (electronic) (cloth ; alk. paper)
673C3FA0-EE03-4AB2-977A-84FF429CFC90 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2016001206
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 --Imprisonment.
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 --Trials, litigation, etc.
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 --Death and burial.
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793.
1789-1799
HISTORY--Europe--France.
Imprisonment.
Trials.
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
France.
Electronic books.
History.
DC137.17
944/.035092 B
Marie Antoinette's darkest days : Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie / Will Bashor. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. The Conciergerie -- Transfer from the Temple Prison -- The queen's dungeon cell -- The horrors of the Conciergerie -- Kindhearted souls -- Part II. Rescue the queen! -- Royalist supporters -- The Carnation Plot -- The queen's new cell -- Tightened security -- Part III. The queen's arraignment -- Prosecutor Fouquier-Tinville -- The indictment, the jury, and the witnesses -- The Revolutionary Tribunal: day one -- The Revolutionary Tribunal: day two -- Part IV. October 16, 1793: cold & cloudy -- The queen's last rites -- The route of the fatal tumbril -- The "national razor" -- Part V. The absurdity -- The unfortunates and the sole survivors -- La Cimetière de la Madeleine -- Epilogue.
Marie Antoinette's Darkest Days recreates in compelling detail the short but intensely agonizing period of the ex-queen's incarceration in the Conciergerie, Her seventy-six days in this terrifying prison can only be described as the darkest and most horrific of the fallen queen's life, vividly recaptured in this richly researched history.
9781442255005 (electronic) 1442255005 (electronic) (cloth ; alk. paper)
673C3FA0-EE03-4AB2-977A-84FF429CFC90 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
2016001206
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 --Imprisonment.
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 --Trials, litigation, etc.
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793 --Death and burial.
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI, King of France, 1755-1793.
1789-1799
HISTORY--Europe--France.
Imprisonment.
Trials.
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.
France.
Electronic books.
History.
DC137.17
944/.035092 B