Marie Antoinette's darkest days : Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie / Will Bashor.

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.

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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.

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