The Trial and Execution of Marie Antoinette

On the 16th October 1793, Marie Antoinette was executed. You might ask why I started at the end, the answer is that it was recently, it was the 16th October and I planned on posting this on the 16th, but due to school, holiday and general business, I was unable to finish it before that day. Anyway, back to the post. Antoinette's trial began on the 14th of October 1793, she was accused of sending millions of France's money to Austria (her homeland), plotting the murder of the Duke of Orleans, declaring her son as the King of France, molesting her son and others I'm too disgusted to type. Today, there is no evidence proving any of these charges to be correct and they are all based on rumors and things  implied in pamphlets. When accused of molesting her son, she did not reply, when asked why she did not, she replied "If I have not replied it is because Nature itself refuses to respond to such a charge laid against a mother.". Despite her denying every claim and them having no evidence to condemn her, she was found guilty and sentenced to death. after her trial she went back to her cell and wrote a letter to her sister in law Madame Elisabeth. Elisabeth never received it. Her hair was cut off and she was driven through Paris in a cart. She wore a white dress. She stepped on the scaffold and accidentally stood on the executioners foot. She said to him, (these being her last words) "Pardon me sir, I meant not to do it.". At 12:15, she was executed using the guillotine at what is called today Place de la Concorde. She was buried in an unmarked grave. 

Marie Antoinette's trial

Marie Antoinette's trial

Marie Antoinette's execution

Marie Antoinette on the scaffold 

Thanks for reading, MG

Marie Antoinette in Horrible Histories

 Horrible Histories is a British kids show. It's based on the Horrible Histories book series by Terry Deary. There have been 4 series's which are all approximately 13 episodes long. In the show they have lots of segments (different periods in history), such as,  Angry Aztecs, Awful Egyptians, Frightful First World War, Gorgeous Georgians, Groovy Greeks, Incredible Incas, Measly Middle Ages, Rotten Romans, Smashing Saxons, Woeful Second World War, Savage Stone Age, Slimy Stuarts, Terrible Tudors, Vile Victorians, Vicious Viking and, the one I'm going to be talking about today, Fabulous French. Most of the sketches in the Fabulous French segment are set around the Revolution and some of them include Marie Antoinette, like the Historical Wife Swap Sketch (pretty self-explanatory) and the Revolution Weather Report. I thought instead of talking about them, I would get links of the sketches on YouTube.

Historical Wife Swap ( Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI and Mr and Mrs French Peasant): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8pgbnN7PII&feature=relmfu
HH News French Revolution  Weather Report:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS-9fNkhkFw&feature=relmfu
HH News Storm of the Bastille report:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDKUJNaOxUo&feature=relmfu

Thanks for Reading,  MG xxx

Alice Lowe as Marie Antoinette in Historical Wife Swap

Marie Antoinette (Alice Lowe) and Louis XVI (Ben Willbond)