num_pages: 185
description: Walk with us through the village of Versailles during theearly days of the French Revolution. You will visit the exact sites where theRevolution was born during the summer of 1789 (e.g. the Tennis Court oath themeeting site for the Estates-General and the caf where members of the BretonClub-forerunnerof the Jacobin movement-met each evening). You will see where the Revolutionarieslived ate worked and played (e.g. Robespierre Ption and Mirabeau's respectiveapartments). Versailles Palace is the focal point of your next TheWomen's March on Versailles (5 October 1789). You will see the sites roomsand staircases in the palace where more than 20000 women attacked the queenand her bodyguards. The next day the royal family was escorted back to Parisnever to see Versailles again. The last two walks take place in Paris. The royal family isnow a prisoner in the Tuileries Palace. The Revolution begins to deterioratewith the September 1792 massacres. You will stop at the site of one of the mostfeared prisons in La Force. The site of the former Knights Templarheadquarters The Temple is one of the last stops on Walk Three. It is thefinal prison for the royal family. Here the king begins his journey on 21January 1793 to the guillotine Marie Antoinette is taken to the Conciergerietheir son Louis XVII is murdered in the tower and their daughter is finallyreleased in December 1795. Electronicpublication We understand how confusing the e-book marketcan be. Before you purchase the e-book version of this book please click onAmazon's buy button. You will see the various devices that support this book.Although Amazon lists Paperwhite as a supported device we have found it isnot. A good rule of thumb for a successful download is to use Kindle Firedevices. This book is not read well on devices smaller than a tablet.
language: English
title: Where Did They Put the Guillotine?-Versailles to the Faubourgs: Volume One
publisher: Yooper Publications