Supporters of the French Revolution killed Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, with the same apparatus used to execute common criminals ...

Queen Marie Antoinette, who was renowned for opulent ... never got to wear the extravagant piece because she lost her head to the guillotine in 1793. The watch wasn't completed until 1827.

a close friend of the queen's head chambermaid, and whose husband later died by the guillotine during the French Revolution. Her family held on to it for generations before it came to auction 227 ...

Afterwards, the guards took his head out of that basket and ... On the 16th of October, 1793, Marie Antoinette was prepared for the guillotine. ♪♪ Kept in a cell and wearing a plain dress ...

Nemesis followed hubris in a life so frivolous as to preclude any proper sense of the tragic. That guillotine has cast a lengthy shadow over Marie Antoinette’s biographers. Whether they have regarded ...

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