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

ISBN
9781442255005

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

Author
Bashor, Will, author.

Personal Author
Bashor, Will, author.

Physical Description
1 online resource

Contents
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.

Local Note
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Personal Subject
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

Subject Term
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
 
Death and burial of a person
 
Imprisonment
 
Trials

Geographic Term
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
 
France

Format
Electronic Resources

Electronic Access
http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?url=http://ezproxy.angliss.edu.au/login?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1290724

Publication Date
2016

Publication Information
Lanham, Maryland :
 
Rowman & Littlefield,
 
2016.


Shelf NumberMaterial TypeCopyShelf LocationStatus
944.0350921:E-BOOK11:ONLINEAvailable for online access and/or download