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Marie Antoinette's darkest days : Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie / Will Bashor.
ISBN:
9781442255005
Title:
Marie Antoinette's darkest days : Prisoner No. 280 in the Conciergerie / Will Bashor.
Author:
Bashor, Will, author.
Personal 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.
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Format:
Electronic Resources
Publication Date:
2016
Publication Information:
Lanham, Maryland :

Rowman & Littlefield,

2016.